Julius Caesar
44 BCE - Rome
Admiration, conspiracy, and the danger of political necessity.
Days before the Ides of March, Rome's most powerful man sets down what he cannot say aloud.
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44 BCE - Rome
Admiration, conspiracy, and the danger of political necessity.
Days before the Ides of March, Rome's most powerful man sets down what he cannot say aloud.
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43 BCE - Italy
In hiding with the sound of horsemen on the road, Rome's greatest orator sets down the case he will never deliver.
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30 BCE - Alexandria
Performance, ruin, and the politics of being seen.
The last pharaoh of Egypt watches her kingdom dissolve, and sets down what Rome will never understand about power.
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13 - Rome
Succession, design, and the politics of making peace look natural.
At Rome, with his body failing faster than his patience, the first emperor sets down the cost of manufacturing peace.
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Alive in this timeline around 44 BCE to 13 / story span 44 BCE-1564
Connected to 2 lives including Julius Caesar, Augustus.
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Alive in this timeline around 43 BCE / story span 63-43 BCE
Connected to 1 life including Cicero.
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Ancient World
500 BCE to 200
Conquest, empire, and the political experiments that still shadow later rule.
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44 BCE - Rome
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Admiration, conspiracy, and the danger of political necessity.
Days before the Ides of March, Rome's most powerful man sets down what he cannot say aloud.
Alive in this timeline around 30 BCE / story span 30 BCE
Connected to 1 life including Cleopatra.
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44 BCE - Rome
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43 BCE - Italy
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In hiding with the sound of horsemen on the road, Rome's greatest orator sets down the case he will never deliver.
30 BCE - Alexandria
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Performance, ruin, and the politics of being seen.
The last pharaoh of Egypt watches her kingdom dissolve, and sets down what Rome will never understand about power.
13 - Rome
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Succession, design, and the politics of making peace look natural.
At Rome, with his body failing faster than his patience, the first emperor sets down the cost of manufacturing peace.
1799 - Mount Vernon
Retirement, republican virtue, and the afterlife of command.
A republic founder whose restraint reads as a deliberate contrast to Caesar's reach.
In his last year at Mount Vernon, the father of a nation admits what the republic asked of him — and what it took.
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Another private life unfolding in Rome, Italy.
I am still at the marble.
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A contrasting life shaped by state power.
On the Danube frontier, a philosopher-emperor writes the private thoughts his public philosophy never permitted.
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