"Veni, vidi, vici," or "I came, I saw, I conquered," is a phrase popularly attributed to Julius Caesar — but why did the ...

Julius Caesar established the Roman Empire and crowned himself dictator perpetuo ... Suetonius writes how “even the commoners began to disapprove of how things were going, ...

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 ...

The Unexpected. Five and a half months later, Caesar is dead. Wilder ends his novel with Suetonius’ description of the assassination, practically the only nonfictional passage in the entire book.

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 ...

Julius Caesar's bloody assassination on March 15, 44 B.C., forever marked March 15, or the Ides of March, as a day of infamy. It has fascinated scholars and writers ever since. For ancient Romans ...