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Julius Caesar Part 1: The Roman Dictator

Real Dictators

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Caesar's Next Move Is Ambitious

In 63 b c, caesar ascends to the job of pontifax maximus, high priest. It's a very important religious office, and you hold it for life. The post comes with a nice, big house on the via sacra near the forum. Caesar even takes a new wife, pompeia, a woman considerably younger than himself. Though, when it becomes that her notion of marital fidelity is not much different to his own, he swiftly divorces her. He's in hock to the tune of 31 million cisterti, about 90 million dollars in to day's terms,. A sure fire way of enriching self was to run one of rome's

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