One of the greatest figures in Roman history, Gaius Julius Caesar has been popularised time and again across various works of art and literature. The Roman statesman and military general who played a ...

THE IDES OF MARCH (246 pp.)—Thornton Wilder—Harper ($2.75). Suppose that, after the death of Caesar, some industrious private investigator assembled all the relevant documents on the ...

This little work, composed when the former Emperor was in exile on St. Helena, and Englished by retired engineer and British military officer Maguire, offers some interesting criticism of Caesar’s ...

In addition to his military and political achievements, in his lifetime Caesar (100-44 B.C.) was a rather noted author and scholar, considered an outstanding stylist, producing works on the Latin ...

It’s astounding that so few fans of martial sagas like “The Lord of the Rings” and “Game of Thrones” have found their way to the narratives of the Greek and Roman historians. In these works, too, one ...

We have entered the season of the campaign book, when presidential hopefuls put their life stories between two covers and peddle them as narratives explaining why they are best-suited to steer the ...

FREEDOM, FAREWELL!—Phyllis Bentley —Macmillan ($2.50). HAIL, CAESAR!—Fletcher Pratt—Smith & Haas ($3.50). With the same workmanlike technique she used in her novels of Yorkshire mill-towns, Phyllis ...

THE LAST ASSASSIN: THE HUNT FOR THE KILLERS OF JULIUS CAESAR by Peter Stothard (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £20, 274 pp) It wasn’t a mere street fortune-teller who warned Julius Caesar about the Ides of ...