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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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Cicero
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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Cleopatra
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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Rome, Italy
Alive in this timeline around 44 BCE / story span 44 BCE-1564
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Formiae, Italy
Alive in this timeline around 43 BCE / story span 63-43 BCE
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500 BCE to 200
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Italy and Alpine Europe
The assassination of Julius Caesar
44 BCE · Rome, Italy
The murder in Rome ends one man's rule and opens a generation of violent constitutional collapse.
Julius Caesar dies, but Augustus learns how to inherit the wreckage.
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Cleopatra and the fall of Ptolemaic Egypt
30 BCE · Alexandria, Egypt
Alexandria's defeat closes the last great Hellenistic court and folds Egypt into Roman power.
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Julius Caesar
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.
- 43 BCE