melvin: Napoleon famously said, what i wanting my generals is luck. And caesar seemed to carry luck with them until the iones of march. He also talks about the the gauls. I mean, sometimes it's quite interesting that one of his rivals, for sengeterics er, seems not dissimilar to him in that the way he's discussed is in terms with some one whowho united many different tribes and generals, but aspired to too great an authority.
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.