Caesar defeats Pompey’s forces in Spain ... B.C., Caesar’s boyhood was marked by the Social Wars, a series of struggles in which Rome’s Italian allies fought for the right to Roman ...

Caesar had become governor of Gaul (modern France) due to the support of the elderly general Pompey and ... sharpened the ...

What did it mean to be an emperor in ancient Rome? That is the question that Mary Beard sought to answer in her 2023 book, “Emperor of Rome.” She wrote, “Everyone then, including emperors, was ...

He returned to Rome in 60 BC and, the following year, was elected consul, the highest office in the republic. Now holding real power, Caesar allied himself with two key people, Pompey and Crassus.

After the unhappy years of purges and treason trials, Rome welcomed its new emperor. The youngest son of the war hero, Germanicus, Gaius Caesar had grown up around soldiers and his nickname ...