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Roman general and dictator
In 47 BC Julius Caesar was the dominant Roman leader, campaigning in Egypt and Asia and consolidating power at Rome; he relieved the Siege of Alexandria, fought the Battle of the Nile with Cleopatra’s...
Roman writers and later Christian authors are the primary literary lenses through which Druids are known: Roman accounts emphasized Druid power and alleged human sacrifice (e.g., Julius Caesar, Tacitu...
Shakespeare supplies both the stock phrases politicians and media reach for—“Et tu, Brute?”, “friends, Romans, countrymen”, “sceptered isle”—and a suite of lexical inventions (assassination, addiction...
In 47 BC Julius Caesar consolidated authority through a cluster of political acts after returning to Rome: he used censorial powers to swell the Senate’s membership, took administrative steps that tre...
In 47 BC Julius Caesar split his year between a dramatic eastern campaign and political consolidation back in Rome: he wintered in Alexandria, intervened in the Ptolemaic civil war and installed Cleop...
Donald Trump has repeatedly been compared to a range of Roman figures—most commonly Nero, Caligula and Julius Caesar, but also Augustus, Claudius, Caracalla, Tiberius and even Commodus—by journalists,...
Roman dates were not written like modern day-month numbers; the Romans counted days inclusively toward fixed points (Kalends, Nones, Ides), so the phrase “the 3rd before the Kalends of February” is a ...
The Druids were a high-ranking priestly and learned class in ancient Celtic societies active from at least the later Iron Age until suppression under Rome; classical authors and modern historians agre...