Crossing the Rubicon (disambiguation)

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Crossing the Rubicon is a metaphor for deliberately proceeding past a point of no return. The original crossing of the Rubicon occurred in 49 BC when Julius Caesar directed his legions across the river towards Rome in defiance of the Roman Senate. At this occasion Caesar is reported to have said "alea iacta est".

The phrase has been used in many places:

• Crossing the Rubicon (album), an album by Swedish melodic metal band Armageddon
• Crossing the Rubicon (Beast Wars), a third season episode of Beast Wars,

• Crossing the Rubicon (Ruppert), a 2004 book by Michael Ruppert on the September 11, 2001 attacks
• Crossing the Rubicon (Mohan), a book by C. Raja Mohan on Indian foreign policy
• Crossing the Rubicon (Kaufman), a book by Julie Kaufman on human-animal relationships
• Crossing the Rubicon (Laham), a book by Nicholas Laham on Ronald Reagan's Middle East foreign policy
• Crossing the Rubicon (Yuan), a book by Nathans Y. Yuan about a Chinese immigrant family
• Crossing the Rubicon (song), a song on the album Nocturne by the band The Human Abstract
• The "Crossing the Rubicon" speech, Pieter Willem Botha's 1985 policy address and one of the landmark events leading to the collapse of apartheid in South Africa.
• Crossing the Rubicon is the name of chapter 37 of Bleach (manga).