His ideal was Alexander of Macedon, as Napoleon's was Julius Caesar.

The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

As you approach the church on the Via D. Baullari you are passing within yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey, near which is believed to have been the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.

Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 45 BC giving it its modern length of 31 days.

* 46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato ( Cato the Younger ) in the battle of Thapsus.

* 48 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus – Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.

Born into an old, wealthy equestrian branch of the Plebeian Octavii family, Augustus was adopted posthumously by his maternal great-uncle Gaius Julius Caesar in 44 BC following Caesar's assassination.

Historians typically refer to him as simply Octavius between his birth in 63 until his posthumous adoption by Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

* Upon his adoption by Caesar, he took Caesar's name and become Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus in accordance with Roman adoption naming standards.

* As part of his actions to strengthen his political ties to Caesar's former soldiers, in 42 BC, following the deification of Caesar, Octavian added Divi Filius ( Son of the Divine ) to his name, becoming Gaius Julius Caesar Divi Filius.

* In 38 BC, Octavian replaced his praenomen " Gaius " and nomen " Julius " with Imperator, the title by which troops hailed their leader after military success, officially becoming Imperator Caesar Divi Filius

His mother Atia was the niece of Julius Caesar.

The following year he was put in charge of the Greek games that were staged in honor of the Temple of Venus Genetrix, built by Julius Caesar.

On 15 March 44 BC, Octavius's adoptive father Julius Caesar was assassinated by a conspiracy led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.

Upon his adoption, Octavius assumed his great-uncle's name, Gaius Julius Caesar.

| ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ; Octavian ; Gaius Octavius Thurinus

Julius Caesar in Gallic Wars tells us ( 1. 51 ) that Ariovistus had gathered an army from a wide region of Germany, but especially the Harudes, Marcomanni, Triboci, Vangiones, Nemetes and Sedusii.

* 43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.

She became Tiberius's first wife and was the mother of his natural son Drusus Julius Caesar.

The six children who survived to adulthood were the sons: Nero Caesar, Drusus Caesar and Caligula born as Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus and the daughters Julia Agrippina or Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla.

According to Suetonius who had cited from Pliny the Elder, Agrippina had borne to Germanicus, a son called Gaius Julius Caesar who had a lovable character.

His kinsman Gaius Julius Civilis was paraded in chains in Rome before Nero ; though he was acquitted by Galba, he was retained at Rome, and when he returned to his kin in the year of upheaval in the Roman Empire, 69, he headed a Batavian rebellion.

As a personal challenge to Octavian's prestige, Antony tried to get Caesarion accepted as a true heir of Julius Caesar, even though the legacy did not mention him at all.

Even though Julius's early career goal was to become a doctor, the family's need for income forced Julius out of school at the age of twelve.

The etymology of " Britain " is so convincing that many authors use the P-form, going so far as to quote the Greek or Latin with P -, even though it is predominantly B -; they attribute the B-to replacement by the Romans in the time of Julius Caesar.

In 1512 the French were driven across the Alps, but it was at the cost of the occupation of Italy by the other powers, and Julius, though he had securely established the papal authority in the states immediately around Rome, was practically as far as ever from realizing his dream of an independent Italian kingdom when he died of fever in February 1513.

Philippe de Mornay, even though he accused all Italians of being sodomites, added specifically: " This horror is ascribed to good Julius.

* Saturday Night ( 1954, though unproduced until 1997 ) ( book by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein )

The battle figures in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ( background of the story in Acts 4 and 5 ), and a fictionalised account of the battle is depicted in the sixth episode of the second season of the HBO television series Rome ( there is but a single battle and both Cassius and Brutus fall in battle instead of being suicides, though Brutus ' death is a lone, suicidal attack on the triumvirs ' advancing forces ).

Romans idealized the woman who was univira, a " one-man " woman, married once, even though by the time of Cicero and Julius Caesar, divorce was common, the subject of gossip rather than social stigma.

Bertha, who had come to the United States in 1848, a refugee from Rhenish Bavaria and the revolution there, had lived in the South before her 1853 marriage with Julius, and during the war sympathized with the South, though their differing sympathies didn't separate their household.

The Apes of God ( 1930 ) has been interpreted similarly, because many of the characters satirised are Jewish, including the modernist author and editor Julius Ratner, a portrait which blends anti-semitic stereotype with historical literary figures ( John Rodker and James Joyce ; though the Joyce element consists solely in the use of the word " epiphany " in the parody of Rodker included in the novel ).

In 1830, along with his colleague Wilhelm Gesenius, he was threatened with deposition for teaching rationalism, and though he retained his office he lost his influence, which passed to Friedrich Tholuck and Julius Müller.

He named the Mare Orientale ( Eastern Sea ) in 1946, along with H P Wilkins, though German astronomer Julius Heinrich Franz has also been credited with the discovery.

Julius Hare belonged to what has been called the " Broad Church party ," though some of his opinions approach those of the Evangelical Arminian school, while others seem vague and undecided.

Many were of the Cappa e spada ( swashbuckler ) variety, though they often feature well-known characters such as Ali Baba, Julius Caesar, Ulysses, Cleopatra, The Three Musketeers, Theseus, Perseus, Achilles, Robin Hood, Sandokan, El Cid, etc.

Even though the term has a medieval origin, this kind of device was first described by Julius Caesar, in the seventh book of his Commentarii de Bello Gallico ( Commentaries on the Gallic Wars ), who employed the device during the siege of Alesia.

After acquiring the strong coloring and other distinctive stylistic features of the Lombard school and — though he is not known to have travelled to Milan — somehow absorbing the superficial mannerisms of Leonardo ( Freedberg 1993: 117 ), he traveled to Siena before 1503, perhaps at the behest of agents of the Spannocchi family, and began with fresco cycles for Olivetan monks and a series of small Ovidian ceiling panels and a frieze depicting the career of Julius Caesar for Sigismondo Chigi at Palazzo Chigi.

He claims to have ruled hundreds of civilizations under hundreds of names: Khafre, Cheops ( builder of the pyramids ), Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar ( though he has also claimed to have participated in the murder of Julius Caesar, but Pre-Crisis he claimed history was inaccurate and Brutus failed ), Genghis Khan, Blackbeard, and Vlad the Impaler, to name a few.

The Bellovaci were surprised by the arrival of Roman troops, and Julius Caesar was intimidated by the size of enemy forces, even though he ( Caesar ) had a large force of about 30, 000 men with him, including 4 legions, tribes, and a few baggage trains.

In mid-March, the Republic provided a pretext for an attack on itself by appointing her own candidate to the vacant bishopric of Vicenza ( an act in keeping with prevailing custom, though Julius considered it a personal provocation ); the Pope proceeded to call for all Christian nations to join him in an expedition to subdue Venice.

After the Scaligeri had been ousted, two self-proclaimed members of the family, Giulio Cesare della Scala ( also known as Julius Caesar Scaliger ) and his son Joseph Justus Scaliger, made a reputation as humanist scholars, though their relationship to the historic Scaliger family has been disputed.

Andrea Mantegna's Triumphs of Caesar shows the Roman triumphal parade of Julius Caesar, though concentrating on the booty rather than the army following it ; the print series Triumphs of Maximilian shows both, leading up to Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor riding on a huge carriage.

A superficial interest was the Italian philosopher Julius Evola who Wakeford admits to " shamelessly stealing from " for song titles even though he found his books " unreadable ".