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.

Another freedman, Gaius Julius Callistus, was against Claudius remarrying Paetina and stated to Claudius that he divorced her before and that remarrying Paetina would make her more arrogant.

The rise, and later assassination, of the dictator Julius Caesar marked the beginning of a constitutional crisis that would lead to the reorganization of the Republic into the Roman Empire.

Often regarded as one of the greatest military strategists in European history, Hannibal would later be considered one of the greatest generals of antiquity, together with Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Scipio, and Pyrrhus of Epirus.

Along with Julius von Pflug, bishop of Naumburg-Zeitz, and Michael Helding, titular bishop of Sidon, he prepared the Augsburg Interim of 1548, a proposed settlement under which Protestants would accept all Catholic authority, being permitted to retain the Protestant teaching on justification but otherwise compelled to accept Catholic doctrine and practice.

Katharine maintained she had remained a virgin for the six months of her first marriage, allowing Julius to issue the dispensation, as church law would have forbidden the union if Katherine had admitted to sleeping with Arthur.

While Julius II's political and warlike achievements would alone entitle him to rank amongst the most remarkable of the occupants of the papal chair, his chief title to honour is to be found in his patronage of art and literature.

This new government would survive for the next 500 years until the rise of Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus, and would cover a period during which Rome's authority and area of control extended to cover great areas of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

In the Itinerary of Antoninus, the description of the road system, after the death of Julius Caesar that would be lost in the Middle Ages.

Numbers would also vary depending on casualties suffered during a campaign ; Julius Caesar's legions during his campaign in Gaul often only had around 3, 500 men.

For example, the year we know as 59 BC would have been described as " the consulship of Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus and Gaius Julius Caesar " ( although that specific year was known jocularly as " the consulship of Julius and Caesar " because of the insignificance of Caesar's counterpart ).

This would not have been enough for Frege because ( to paraphrase him ) it does not exclude the possibility that the number 3 is in fact Julius Caesar.

For example, Gaius Julius Caesar argued that exile and disenfranchisement would be sufficient punishment for the conspirators.

A century later, the site of Carthage was rebuilt as a Roman city by Julius Caesar, and would later become one of the main cities of Roman Africa by the time of the Empire.

In a profile about Frink, the publication UGO Networks wrote: " Where would the town be without your Jerry Lewis / Julius Kelp-inspired voice and antics?

The 1976 – 77 season would be memorable for the 76ers ; as a result of the terms of the ABA-NBA merger they acquired Julius Erving from the New York Nets, soon after the team was purchased by local philanthropist Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr., grandson of George Dunton Widener and heir to the Widener fortune.

Michelangelo was intimidated by the scale of the commission, and made it known from the outset of Julius II's approach that he would prefer to decline.

A myth reported as " Egyptian " in Gaius Julius Hyginus ' Poetic Astronomy that would seem to be invented to justify a connection of Pan with Capricorn says that when Aegipan — that is Pan in his goat-god aspect — was attacked by the monster Typhon, he dove into the Nile ; the parts above the water remained a goat, but those under the water transformed into a fish.

According to Julius Caesar, the slaves and dependents of Gauls of rank would be burnt along with the body of their master as part of his funerary rites.

The European continental premiere was performed in Düsseldorf, Germany on 7 February 1901, under Julius Buths ( who would also conduct the European premiere of The Dream of Gerontius in December 1901 ).

After Julius Caesar's death, and the end of the subsequent Civil Wars, Augustus would finish his great-uncle's work, giving the Forum its final form.

Without Julius Streicher and his Stürmer, the importance of a solution to the Jewish question would not be seen to be as critical as it actually is by many citizens.

In Hamburg one evening in January 1826 Heine met Julius Campe, who would be his chief publisher for the rest of his life.

In 1927 Mintz ordered Disney to stop producing Alice Comedies due to the costs of combining live-action and animation and since the cartoons were beginning to focus more on Julius rather than Alice, it would make more economic sense to create a fully animated series.