He returned to Rome in 60 BC and, the following year, was elected consul, the highest office in the republic. Now holding real power, Caesar allied himself with two key people, Pompey and Crassus.

We are being tempted afresh to give our allegiance to men who wield great power and wealth in the hope that we will benefit ...

He returned to Rome in 60 BC and, the following year, was elected consul, the highest office in the republic. Now holding real power, Caesar allied himself with two key people, Pompey and Crassus.

Caesar only delivered the death blow to Pompey’s stubborn followers in Spain a year later, in 45 B.C. Having returned to Rome, he continued implementing significant reforms in the year of life ...

The outrage that followed set the stage for the civil wars that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the birth of the ...

First up, Julius Caesar. He wasn’t actually an emperor ... Things didn’t end happily for him, when some people in Rome thought he was getting too big for his boots – I mean sandals ...