Gaius Julius Caesar

On this part of the Livius-website, you can find a biography in twelve parts and twenty-four translated texts.

It can not be decided whether it was better for the commonwealth for Caesar to be born, or never to be born.

Livy, fr.16.

Head of Caesar (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden)

Overview of all articles

• Youth (100-82)
• Plutarch on Caesar and the pirates
• Early career (81-59)
• Plutarch on Caesar's governorship of Andalusia
• Caesar's consulship (59)
• Plutarch on Julia and Pompey
• The conquest of Gaul (58-54)
• Plutarch on Caesar's stay in Gaul
• Caesar on his battle against the Nervians
• Caesar on the Atuatuci
• Plutarch on the conference at Lucca
• Caesar on the Tencteri and Usipetes
• Caesar on the first Germanic expedition
• The reconquest of Gaul (54-51)
• Cassius Dio on Ambiorix
• Caesar on the siege of Bourges
• Caesar on the siege of Alesia
• Civil Wars (51-47)
• Plutarch on Caesar and Pompey
• Plutarch on Caesar's crossing of the Rubico
• Caesar on the battle of Pharsalus
• Cassius Dio on the battle of Pharsalus
• Plutarch on the Alexandrine war
• "Caesar" on the battle of Zela
• Plutarch on the African war
• Appian on Caesar's triumph
• Domestic policy (47-44)
• Plutarch on the reform of the calendar
• Constitutional problems (44)
• Plutarch on Caesar's plans
• Plutarch on the Lupercalia incident
• Suetonius on the death of Caesar
• Caesar's inheritance (44-27)
• Suetonius on Caesar's funeral
• Caesar's funeral mask
• Appian on the speech of Marc Antony
• Assessment
• Appian on Alexander the Great and Caesar
• Caesar's writings
• Sources
• Caesar's legions