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Ancient Rome Portal

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Gaius Julius Caesar (July 12, 100 BC – March 15, 44 BC) was a Roman military and political leader. He played an important part in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. His conquest of Gaul extended the Roman world all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, with the first Roman invasion of Britannia in 55 BC. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest military geniuses of all time, as well as a brilliant politician and one of the ancient world's strongest leaders. In 42 BC, two years after his death, the Roman Senate officially proclaimed him as one of the Roman deities.

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This picture shows where Rome is.

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Did you know

...although Virgil wrote about the gods in his work (notably The Aeneid) he was actually an epicurean - a sect that were atheists and believed that the most noble goal in life was to avoid suffering?

...Julius Caesar was never emperor of Rome, but his heir and grandnephew Gaius Octavius was?

...the Roman army adopted most of their equipment from people they defeated.

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