Caesar Books
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Penguin Classics (18 December 2007)Price: $10.20 -
Princeton University Press (24 March 2010)Price: $18.45 -
Yale University Press (12 May 2009)Price: $21.45 -
Yale University Press (28 January 2008)Price: $13.60 -
Wiley (08 February 2010)Price: $17.13
Definition
When in 50 BC the senate elected Caesar's rival Pompey to commander-in-chief of the Roman military, Caesar conquered Italy with his army from Gaul in 49 BC. He then defeated Pompey at Pharsalos, and followed the fleeign Pompey to Egypt.
There, Caesar fell in love with Cleopatra VII (51-30 BC) who bore him a son: Caesarion. He made her and her brother Ptolemy XIV pharaohs of Egypt, securing a friendly Egyptian client state.
Back in Rome, Caesar instituted various tax reforms and tried to consolidate his own power. He was a monarch in all but name, which eventually enraged the senate and led to his assassination.
Articles
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During his reign as dictator from 49-44 BC, Julius Caesar had a number of notable impacts on the city of Rome.
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The Forum Romanum was the main and central forum of the city of Rome. It became the economic, political, and religious center of the city in early Republican times, around the seventh century B.C. It continued to be an important functional and symbolic area of Rome through the city – and the Empire’s – evolution, and changed along with the times.
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