Although he did not rule for long, he gave Rome fresh hope and a whole dynasty of emperors. Born into an aristocratic family in around 100 BC, Julius Caesar grew up in dangerous times. Rome could ...

While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...

Because he was writing about dead emperors who belonged to a dead dynasty, he had the freedom ... a vivid picture of Rome from the time of Julius Caesar to the Emperor Domitian.