Given the chance to interrogate one of history’s most famous figures, what would you ask? Speaking on the HistoryExtra ...

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar was first performed in 1599 and it continues to be reinterpreted by theater directors up to this day. Touching on themes like tyranny, power, and betrayal, this play also ...

A superb general and politician, Julius Caesar (c.100 BC – 44 BC / Reigned 46 – 44 BC) changed the course of Roman history. Although he did not rule for long, he gave Rome fresh hope and a ...

BCE, ancient Rome witnessed one of the most infamous betrayals in history, the assassination of Julius Caesar. Known as the ...

After Sulla’s death, Caesar returned to Rome, where he rapidly climbed the cursus honorum, serving as quaestor in 69 BC, ...

Roman proconsul Julius Caesar conducts a series of military campaigns ... who since Crassus’s death had been moving politically closer to the aristocratic optimates. After the fighting was ...

Julius Caesar's popularity soars when he returns to ... Caesar heads to the Senate and is stabbed to death. Upon this discovery, the people rally against Cassius and Brutus, and war is waged ...

One of these was led by his great-uncle, Julius Caesar. Then Augustus got a lucky break. In 46 BC, Caesar won the civil war and was named dictator of Rome. To secure his position, he needed an heir.

Julius Caesar:What is now amiss ... Why he that cuts out twenty years of life cuts off so many years of fearing death. Marcus Brutus:Stoop, Romans, stoop, and let us bathe our hands in Caesar's ...

THE Ides of March is a historical event that happened on March 15 in the Roman calendar, marking the brutal assassination of ...

Marcus Brutus:Then none have I offended. Marcus Brutus:Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony who, though he had no part in Caesar's death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in ...