Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System

The republic did not simply fall. It was replaced, by a man who understood it better than its defenders did. W. Warde Fowler follows Caesar from the crowded politics of the late republic through Gaul, the Rubicon, and the dictatorship, and asks what he actually built. You will discover a careful, humane study of the moment one system became another, and of the ambition that drove it. The founder of an empire that had no name yet. Press play and cross the river.