Julius Caesar would seem a no-brainer choice at the moment. The timing looks bang on. Autocrats the order of the day, assassination attempts, actual assassinations, the threat of civil war, rabid ...

Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, leader, orator—and one of history’s most infamous assassins. Why did he launch a ...

In addition to his military and political achievements, in his lifetime Caesar (100-44 B.C.) was a rather noted author and scholar, considered an outstanding stylist, producing works on the Latin ...

Julius Caesar’s war stories are so associated with Latin textbooks that they tend to get forgotten as contributions to military history. Originally dispatches sent back to the Senate in Rome, they ...

The study of a 2,000-year-old bullet found in Spain gives clues to the final days of the Roman civil war. The almond-shaped lead bullet, likely used in a slingshot, offers potential evidence of ...