Deep distrust of am a the senate, i think, as a result of having been on the wrong side of the civil war between sulla and caesar. He's on the run in his adolescence. He comes under pressure to divorce his wife as elaten ager because she's on thewrong side. So i think some, some, some fairly major tromer psychologically as as a relatively young man. A huge ambition and a sense perhaps that whatever sullar did as dictator wasn't enough.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life, work and reputation of Julius Caesar. Famously assassinated as he entered the Roman senate on the Ides of March, 44 BC, Caesar was an inspirational general who conquered much of Europe. He was a ruthless and canny politician who became dictator of Rome, and wrote The Gallic Wars, one of the most admired and studied works of Latin literature. Shakespeare is one of many later writers to have been fascinated by the figure of Julius Caesar.
With:
Christopher Pelling
Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford
Catherine Steel
Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow
Maria Wyke
Professor of Latin at University College London
Producer: Thomas Morris.