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  • Plutarch on Caesar's last plans

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    During the last year of his life, Julius Caesar prepared several great plans. In fact, it seems as if he was escaping into wild fantasies because he was unable to cop…

  • Plutarch on the Lupercalia Incident

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    Caesar's most important problem, and the only one he could not solve with military means, was how he could receive recognition for his one-man-rule from the republica…

  • Plutarch on Caesar's War in Alexandria

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    In August 48 BCE, Julius Caesar defeated his rival Pompey and the last defenders of the Roman republic in the…

  • Suetonius

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    Life Roman official, first quarter of the second century Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus wa…

  • Apollonius of Tyana (5)

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    Other sources Apollonius' biographer Philostratus mentions in his…

  • Ctesias of Cnidus

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    Early life The Suda, a tenth century Byzantine dictionary that contains much information about ancient authors, writes about Ctesias:…

  • Plutarch on the beginning of Alexander's reign

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    At the beginning of his reign, Alexander faced a serious crisis: the vassal tribes in the north were in open revolt and the Greek towns in the south considered reb…

  • Macedonia (7)

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    After Alexander When Alexander the Great had left Macedonia to conquer the…

  • Plutarch on Alexander's visit to Troy

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    Kesik Tepe, perhaps the tomb of Achilles In May 334,…

  • Philip II of Macedonia (2)

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    Philip II In 356, Philip was invited to become the protector of a city named Crenides, east of…