Author:Julius Caesar

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Gaius Julius Caesar (100 BCE–44 BCE)

Julius Caesar was instrumental in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. A politician of the popular faction and a daring military commander, he formed an unofficial triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus, conquered Gaul, fought and won a civil war against the Senate and his former ally, Pompey, and became perpetual dictator of Rome. In 44 BC he was assassinated by senators hoping to restore the Republic, but after 13 years of power struggle and civil war, Caesar's adopted son Augustus would establish permanent autocratic rule.

Gaius Julius Caesar

Works

War Commentaries

• The Gallic War (Books 1-7 by Caesar; Book 8 written by Aulus Hirtius)
• The Civil War
• The Alexandrian War (attributed to Caesar, possibly written by Aulus Hirtius or Gaius Oppius)
• The African War (attributed to Caesar, possibly written by Aulus Hirtius or Gaius Oppius)
• The Spanish War (attributed to Caesar, possibly written by Aulus Hirtius or Gaius Oppius)

Letters

• Cicero, Letters to friends 7.5: To Caesar in Gaul, from Rome, February 54 BC
• Fragments of Letters

Other works

• Fragments of poetry
• Fragments of Analogy
• Fragments of Anticato
• Fragments of Speeches

About

• George N. Olcott, “Cæsar, Gaius Julius,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Caesar, Gaius Julius” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• Suetonius, The Life of Julius Caesar
• William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

On his works

• “Cæsar's Commentaries” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

External links

• Plutarch, Life of Julius Caesar

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.