Bust Of Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

A marble bust of a man

Julius Caesar's hellraising youth: did he really defy tyrants and crucify pirates?.

Caesar's funeral drama: anger and revenge after death.

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'.

Q&AWhy do we need to beware the Ides of March?

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

Blood, guts and spectacle: 6 shocking events from the history of ancient Roman gladiators.

Joining the Roman empire.

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)

Fulvia: the maligned wife of politicians who made herself the power broker of ancient Rome.

An EID MAR coin showing two daggers and a helmet

The 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)

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

Episode 6The evil that men do.

Episode 3Master of his fate.

Episode 5The dogs of war.

Episode 4Honourable men.

Episode 2Was this ambition?.

Episode 1Beware the Ides of March.

Julius Caesar

QuizHow much do you know about Julius Caesar?

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

A depiction of Queen Cleopatra, c50 BC

Who was Cleopatra? Her life, her love affairs and her children, plus 6 little-known facts

Pompey flees after the battle of Pharsalus

The battle of Pharsalus: how Julius Caesar defeated Pompey

How assassinations have changed history.

Julius Caesar. (Photo by Getty Images)

Caesar's British gamble.

The assassination of Julius Caesar

What if…Julius Caesar had not been assassinated?.

The hunt for Caesar’s killers.

A bust of Roman dictator Julius Caesar

Julius CaesarYour guide to the Roman dictator

Roman Britain: everything you wanted to know.

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)

9 of the most overrated battles in history (and one underrated one).

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)

Bettany Hughes on the symbol of Venus

Historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes. (Channel 5)

Eight Days That Made Rome: behind the scenes with historian Bettany Hughes

My history heroNick Knowles chooses Julius Caesar (100–44 BC).

A 1985 production of 'Julius Caesar'. For all their despotism, Romans thanked their first three emperors for delivering them from the curse of civil war. (Photo by Jean-Jacques BERNIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

The glorious Caesars.