Caesar scored some early victories and, by 46 BC, was dictator of Rome. After a year spent eliminating his remaining enemies, he returned home. Generous in victory, he was kind to his defeated ...

so Shakespeare had to show Caesar' in an unsavoury light. Didn’t he? He had to show him as a kind of tyrant, as a sort of dictator in order for the audience to feel, "Yeah, they are justified in ...

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He came. He saw. He conquered. The tale of an ambitious power-grab that turned to tyranny. How Julius Caesar dismantled five centuries of ancient Roman democracy in just 16 years.

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After eliminating his rivals in a civil war, general and politician Gaius Julius Caesar began serving as dictator of Rome in 49 BCE. He established a number of political reforms before getting ...

The following year, Caesar returned home and, in 46 BC, was named dictator of Rome. Cleopatra followed, bringing along her young son Ptolemy XV Caesar, also called Caesarion, whom she claimed was ...

The death of the republic was accelerated by Caesarism; or in the case of Rome, it was literally by Julius Caesar as dictator, and then by first emperor Augustus who kept up the veneer of ...

After winning the civil war and the death of his former ally and rival – Pompey the Great – Caesar became the sole master of Rome – a dictator for life. Caesar’s grand plans were cut short ...