Bust Of Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Colourful illustration of a figure in a red helmet sitting inside a futuristic time machine built from a oversized wristwatch, set against a pink background

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We gave 8 historians a time machine. You won't believe where they chose to go. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A marble bust of a man

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Julius Caesar's hellraising youth: did he really defy tyrants and crucify pirates?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Caesar's funeral drama: anger and revenge after death. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cleopatra, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony: how the last pharaoh's love affairs shaped Ancient Egypt's fate

The assassination of Julius Caesar on the 'Ides of March'.

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Gladiators do battle in a c320 AD mosaic, housed in the Borghese Gallery in Rome

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Joining the Roman empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fulvia gleefully posing with Cicero’s severed head, in an 1898 painting by Pavel Svedomsky. Whether or not she pierced his tongue with hairpins is the subject of debate (Photo by CBW / Alamy Stock Photo)

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Fulvia: the maligned wife of politicians who made herself the power broker of ancient Rome. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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RomanvideoThe coin that celebrates Caesar's murder

A painting by Vincenzo Camuccini depicting the death of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

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The death of Caesar: do we know the whole story?

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Episode 3Master of his fate. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 4Honourable men. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 2Was this ambition?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 1Beware the Ides of March. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Julius Caesar

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QuizHow much do you know about Julius Caesar?

RomanvideoEt Tu, Brute?What did Caesar say before he died?

A depiction of Queen Cleopatra, c50 BC

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Pompey flees after the battle of Pharsalus

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The battle of Pharsalus: how Julius Caesar defeated Pompey

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Julius Caesar. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Caesar's British gamble. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The assassination of Julius Caesar

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What if…Julius Caesar had not been assassinated?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The hunt for Caesar’s killers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A bust of Roman dictator Julius Caesar

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Julius CaesarYour guide to the Roman dictator

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Roman Britain: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dornier 217 bombers of the Luftwaffe bomb London during the Battle of Britain. "The crucial role of the RAF in denying the Germans control of the air in 1940 and therefore persuading Hitler to abandon his invasion plans is so well known that it might seem almost sacrilegious to question it, " says Sean Lang. "But was it solely responsible for saving Britain from invasion? Not quite." (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

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In ‘Venus Uncovered’ on BBC Four, Wednesday 15 November at 9pm, Bettany Hughes investigates the mythological figure of Venus. (© Sandstone Global/Image by Tim Knight)

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Historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes. (Channel 5)

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Front and profile views of the bust of Roman dictator Julius Caesar (c50 BC) on display in the British Museum. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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My history heroNick Knowles chooses Julius Caesar (100–44 BC). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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