"Et tu, Brute?" ("You too, Brutus?") has become history's most famous betrayal line, but it's not really history at all. Let's retrace history in an attempt to discover what the Roman dictator ...
In a single passage of his Commentaries on the Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar immortalized two rival centurions whose lives ...
Julius Caesar had three distinct traits that allowed him to reshape the Roman world. From conquering Gaul and crossing the ...
The events in Julius Caesar took place 2,000 years ago, but the idea of political assassination has a terrible resonance for Americans. One notorious figure, John Wilkes Booth, was obsessed with the ...
Why did a group of Roman senators gather near Pompey's theater on March 15, 44 B.C., to kill Julius Caesar? Was it their fear of Caesar's tyrannical power? Or were these aristocratic senators worried ...
Friends, Romans, Brooklynites — lend us your ears! A new production of Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” offers the ever-timely advice that stabbing your political opponents may not be the ...
The fabled Library of Alexandria is one of the most famous structures of the ancient world, up there with the Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and other architectural wonders ...