Caesar also deployed in three lines but could only set them to six men deep if he was to match the length of Pompey's line.

The evidence from the ancient historians could also converge with evidence from other fields, such as archeology: for example, evidence that many senators fled Rome at the time, that the battles of Caesar ’ s civil war occurred, and so forth.

The fragments of Ennius contain a few couplets, and scattered verses attributed to Roman public figures like Cicero and Julius Caesar also survive.

" He also illustrates the concept by saying, " If I point to a statue of Caesar and ask you ' Who is that?

The later biographies of Caesar by Suetonius and Plutarch are also major sources.

Caesar's father, also called Gaius Julius Caesar, governed the province of Asia, while his mother, Aurelia Cotta, came from an influential family.

Caesar was already in Crassus ' political debt, but he also made overtures to Pompey.

Caesar also married again, this time Calpurnia, who was the daughter of another powerful senator.

Caesar also tightly regulated the purchase of state-subsidised grain and reduced the number of recipients to a fixed number, all of whom were entered into a special register.

Plutarch also reports that Caesar said nothing, pulling his toga over his head when he saw Brutus among the conspirators.

Not only did the new Caesar belong to both the Julii and the Claudii, but he was also a direct descendant of Augustus Caesar as well.

Like his uncle Caligula before him, Nero was also a direct descendant of Augustus Caesar, a fact which made his ascension to the throne much easier and smoother than it had been for Tiberius or Claudius.

Antony exercised his tribunician veto, with the aim of preventing a senatorial decree declaring martial law against the veto, and was violently expelled from the senate with another Caesar adherent, Cassius, who was also a tribune of the plebs.

During the eulogy he also read Caesar's will, which left most of his property to the people of Rome: whatever Caesar's real intentions had been, Antony presumably meant to demonstrate that contrary to the conspirators ' assertions, Caesar had no intention of forming a royal dynasty.

Roman Emperor Augustus referred to his relation to the deified adoptive father, Julius Caesar as " son of a god " via the term divi filius which was later also used by Domitian and is distinct from the use of Son of God in the New Testament.

The Roman military officer Mamurra also served as praefectus fabrum in Hispania, Gaul and Pontus under Julius Caesar.

Worcestershire sauce is also used to flavour cocktails such as a Bloody Mary or Caesar.

Other notables included Karl Urban in a variety of roles such as Cupid and Caesar, Hudson Leick as Xena's nemesis Callisto ( Leick also played a body-switched Xena in the episode Intimate Stranger ), Claire Stansfield as the evil shamaness Alti ; and a number of trusted friends – Jennifer Sky as feisty sidekick Amarice, Bruce Campbell as Autolycus King of Thieves, Robert Trebor as dodgy entrepreneur Salmoneus, William Gregory Lee as the warrior-poet Virgil and Tim Omundson as the spiritual healer Eli.

The Germans of the Ubii also sent cavalry, which Caesar equipped with Remi horses.

" Booth was also known to be greatly attracted to Caesar himself, having played both Brutus and Caesar upon various stages.

A paper cup used by Vincent is also found after he gave it to Caesar the cleaner.

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

Plutarch ( AD 46 – 120 ) wrote that during his visit to Alexandria in 48 BC Julius Caesar accidentally burned the library down when he set fire to his own ships to frustrate Achillas ' attempt to limit his ability to communicate by sea.

Caesar wrote commentaries on the Gallic and civil wars in a straightforward style to justify his actions as a general.

His nephew Lucan wrote the Pharsalia ( about 60 ), an epic poem describing the civil war between Caesar and Pompey.

His contemporary Suetonius wrote biographies of the 12 Roman rulers from Julius Caesar through Domitian.

After the disaster of the Battle of Pharsalus, Brutus wrote to Caesar with apologies and Caesar immediately forgave him.

Mercury in particular was reported as becoming extremely popular among the nations the Roman Empire conquered ; Julius Caesar wrote of Mercury being the most popular god in Britain and Gaul, regarded as the inventor of all the arts.

The growing tide of public support soon turns Brutus against Caesar ( this public support was actually faked ; Cassius wrote letters to Brutus in different handwritings over the next month in order to get Brutus to join the conspiracy ).

In 2006, Chris Taylor from the Australian comedy team The Chaser wrote a comedy musical called Dead Caesar which was shown at the Sydney Theatre Company in Sydney.

His supporter Gaius Oppius wrote a pamphlet which attempted to prove that Caesar could not have fathered Caesarion.

Julius Caesar wrote a play on Oedipus, but it has not survived into modern times.

Throughout his life he was an extreme profligate, something that Plutarch wrote reflected ill upon his patron Julius Caesar.

Posidonius wrote a geographic treatise on the lands of the Celts which has since been lost, but which is referred to extensively ( both directly and otherwise ) in the works of Diodorus of Sicily, Strabo, Caesar and Tacitus ' Germania.

* The Greek historian / biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote the On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great and " Life of Alexander " in his " Parallel Lives " series, paired with " Life of Julius Caesar "

Although authors such as Anne Perry wrote in the genre during the next decade, it wasn't until about 1990 that the genre's popularity saw a fairly quick ascent with works such as Lindsey Davis's Falco novels, set in the Roman Empire of Vespasian ; Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody novels, in which the main character is not only a Victorian lady but an early feminist and an archaeologist working in early 20th century Egypt ; Steven Saylor's " Roma Sub Rosa " novels, set in the Roman Republic at the time of Julius Caesar ; John Maddox Roberts's SPQR series set during the Roman Republic ; and P. C. Doherty's various series, including The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, the Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries, partly indebted to the hardboiled tradition, and the Canterbury Tales of Mystery and Murder.

With the exception of a few major writers, such as Cicero, Caesar, Lucretius and Catullus, ancient accounts of Republican literature are glowing accounts of jurists and orators who wrote prolifically but who now can't be read because their works have been lost, or analyses of language and style that appear insightful but can't be verified because there are no surviving instances.

Swann was obviously based on Flynn, while Benjy Stone is loosely based on both Brooks and Woody Allen, who also wrote for Caesar.

George Clemenceau's epitaph of Faure, in the same trend, was " Il voulait être César, il ne fut que Pompée " ( another wordplay in French ; could mean both " he wished to be Caesar, but ended up as Pompey ", or " he wished to be Caesar and ended up being blown ": the verb " pomper " in French is also slang for performing oral sex on a man ); Clemenceau, who was also editor of the newspaper l ' Aurore, wrote that " upon entering the void, he must have felt home ".< ref >

For instance, regarding Julius Caesar and his assassins, Suetonius wrote:

In this sense Suetonius wrote of The Twelve Caesars, meaning the emperors from Julius Caesar to the Flavians included ( where, after Nero, the inherited name had turned into a title ), and emperors adopted themselves into an Imperial lineage.

It was probably also in this period that he wrote his Life of Cato, in which he will have praised the advocate of senatorial freedom against Caesar, with whom he also shared an interest in Stoicism.