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Julius Caesar Part 3: Murder in the Senate

Real Dictators

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Caesar's Return to Rome

Caesar's antics have been greeted as a scandal, more that he's been consorting with a foreigner and a royal. That he intends to bring Cleopatra to Rome ruffles more feathers. As ever, Caesar silences his critics with his populist touch. He secures land in Gaul to settle 80,000 of his veterans. In Rome itself, he instigates grand engineering works,. draining the marshland to stop the persistent flooding. And then there's his pet project, his living memorial, his brand new forum.

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