JULIUS CAESAR: THE MAN WHO DESTROYED THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
Episode 7 | Human History — Individuals
In this History episode we focus on Julius Caesar — the man who crossed the Rubicon, was stabbed twenty-three times by the senators who thought killing him would save the Republic, and whose adopted heir became Rome's first Emperor within two years of his death.
This episode covers his early career and enormous political debts, the nine-year Gallic Wars that killed an estimated one million people, the civil war against Pompey, his relationship with Cleopatra, the Julian calendar reform, and the fourteen years of civil war that followed the Ides of March…
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