The Roman historian Suetonius described Julius Caesar as timid and noncommittal as he initially approached the Rubicon River -- a shallow and narrow waterway that, at the time, demarcated the boundary ...

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

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As we consider the manifestos of today’s progressives, we should ask: What can we learn from the reign of Julius Caesar? Julius Caesar established the Roman Empire and crowned himself dictator ...

In The Lives of the Twelve Caesars (De Vita Caesarum), the Roman historian Suetonius reports that more than 60 were joined in the plot to assassinate Caesar, including Gaius Cassius and Marcus Junius ...

Blow-by-blow accounts of the Ides of March spare few details on how Rome's dictator-for-life met a bloody end in 44 B.C. Daggers drawnBefore horrified onlookers, assassins begin attacking Julius ...

Christian-Georges Schwentzel does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant ...