More than 2,000 years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of history's most influential figures. The Roman general and ...

Long before ruling Rome, Julius Caesar faced Cilician pirates, raised his own ransom, and turned kidnapping into a ruthless lesson of power.

The Western world celebrates New Year's Day on the first of January, though that was not always the case, and it took at least two major calendrical reforms in as many millennia to cement Jan. 1 as ...

Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator.

As Caesar tightens his grip on Rome, he is declared "Dictator for Life." As Caesar steadily draws ever more power to himself, his position utterly undermines the founding principle of the Roman ...