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.

Tacitus, the most important Roman historian of this period, took a particular interest in Britain as Gnaeus Julius Agricola, his father-in-law and the subject of his first book, served there three times.

According to Julius Caesar, the Belgian tribe of the Atuatuci " was descended from the Cimbri and Teutoni, who, upon their march into our province and Italy, set down such of their stock and stuff as they could not drive or carry with them on the near ( i. e. west ) side of the Rhine, and left six thousand men of their company there with as guard and garrison " ( Gall.

Although mentioned in the New Testament gospels, there are no extant non-biblical references to Nazareth until around 200 AD, when Sextus Julius Africanus, cited by Eusebius ( Church History 1. 7. 14 ), speaks of “ Nazara ” as a village in " Judea " and locates it near an as-yet unidentified “ Cochaba .” In the same passage Africanus writes of desposunoi-relatives of Jesus-who he claims kept the records of their descent with great care.

When Julius Caesar invaded Gaul, there were nine different Gallic tribes in Normandy.

Julius extended his patronage to the great Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whom he brought to Rome as his maestro di cappella, Giorgio Vasari, who supervised the design of the Villa Giulia, and to Michelangelo, who worked there.

While there, Sullivan studied composition with Julius Rietz, counterpoint with Moritz Hauptmann and Ernst Richter and the piano with Louis Plaidy and Ignaz Moscheles.

Upon hearing that Sherman's men were advancing on corduroy roads through the Salkehatchie swamps at a rate of a dozen miles per day, Johnston " made up his mind that there had been no such army in existence since the days of Julius Caesar.

Although Julius Caesar recorded that the druids of Gaul, Britain and Ireland had metempsychosis as one of their core doctrines, there is no indication that it was significantly related to that concept among the Greeks.

Meanwhile war had resumed in Britannia, where Gnaeus Julius Agricola pushed further into Caledonia and managed to establish several forts there.

Thomas Platter the Younger, a Swiss traveller, saw a tragedy about Julius Caesar at a Bankside theatre on 21 September 1599 and this was most likely Shakespeare's play, as there is no obvious alternative candidate.

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 ).

At the outbreak of the Civil Wars it was deemed by Julius Caesar of sufficient importance to be secured with a garrison of Gaulish and Spanish horse ; and it was there that M. Coelius was put to death, after a vain attempt to excite an insurrection in this part of Italy.

In the time of Julius Caesar there was a Gallic village named Bibrax where the Remis ( inhabitants of the country round Reims ) had to meet the onset of the confederated Belgae.

Gaius Julius Solinus cites Cato the Elder's lost Origines for the story that the city was founded by Catillus the Arcadian, a son of Amphiaraus, who came there having escaped the slaughter at Thebes, Greece.

Julius Caesar settled veterans from his 10th legion there and attempted to develop its port while Marseille was revolting against Roman control.

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 port of Monaco is first mentioned in historical records as early as 43 BC, when Julius Caesar concentrated his fleet there while waiting in vain for Pompey.

He was the second of four sons ( there were also ten daughters ) born to Julius Delius ( 1822 – 1901 ) and his wife Elise Pauline, née Krönig ( 1838 – 1929 ).

After this, Julius Delius recognised that there was no prospect that his son would succeed in the family business, but he remained opposed to music as a profession, and instead sent him to America to manage an orange plantation.

Including the pontifex maximus, who was president of the college, there were originally three or five pontifices, but the number increased over the centuries, finally becoming 16 under Julius Caesar.

Lucullus conquered Sinope for Rome in 70 BC, and Julius Caesar established a Roman colony there, Colonia Julia Felix, in 47 BC.

Instead, by the end of the civil wars in which Julius Caesar had led his armies, it became clear on the one hand that there was certainly no consensus to return to the old-style monarchy, and that on the other hand the situation where several officials, bestowed with equal power by the senate, fought one another had to come to an end.

Julius Caesar's rival Pompey made a stand there in 48 BC before fleeing south to Greece.

Also, the governor of Gaul, Gaius Julius Vindex, rose in revolt in early 68 and I Italica was redirected there, arriving just in time to see the end of the revolt.

Although initially there were only three, the number was increased by Julius Caesar to four during the end of the Republic.