julius caesar

And she doesn't die in childbirth keeping Caesars alliance with Pompey. Does the civil war still break out any time soon? Will the republic endure? Will Caesars grandchild end up inheriting Caesars legacy and a good chunk of Pompey's as well?

Without Cato being present to influence the negotiations, Cicero manages to convince the two Pompeian consuls to accept the compromise offered by Mark Antony. Caesar gets his province with a single legion and the ability to stand for consul in absentia thus affording him legal immunity. What...

Back in the late 60's BCE, there was a long-standing rivalry within Celtic Gaul between the Aedui, who were building an empire of sorts, and the Sequani and Arverni, who were, in turn, threatened by the expansion of the (Roman-allied) Aedui. The latter party invited a king of the Suebi Germanic...

Inspired by this discussion:https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-octavian-or-caesar-restored-the-monarchy.230615/ and Velasco's excellent After Actium TL. One of the problems I've found with the early Roman Empire is the position of Emperor itself: it wasn't a formal office but a...

In OTL 46 BCE, following Caesar's victory at the Battle of Thaspus, Cato committed suicide in Utica. He tried to stab himself with his sword, but he had an injured hand, which led him to make a mess of it; Plutarch describes the scene. My question is, with no PoD's prior to the Battle of...

Very shortly before he was killed OTL by Milo, Publius Clodius Pulcher had an altercation with former ally Mark Antony, who was now sleeping with his wife at the time. To quote Goldsworthy: "His old quarrel with Clodius reignited and on one occasion a sword-armed Mark Antony let a group that...

[44 BC] – … and thus was Caesar killed and mourned. With the assassins fled from the city, and the dictator's other critics cowed, Marcus Antonius was not only Consul, but the successor to Caesar's absolute power in all but official name. And yet, in only about a year, he would fall in battle...

When Julius Ceasar ran for Consul in 60 BCE (for the year 59 BCE), he intended for his co-consul to be his "running mate", Lucius Lucceius; instead, he got paired with Marcus Calpurnius Biblius, an old colleague who hated his guts. What interests me here is that, not only was Lucceius something...

According to Robert Harris*, after Cicero fled Rome as Clodius was moving against him, he might have turned back and returned to the city; he could have fought the tribune on the law that would exile him, and, because Ceasar was leaving Rome for the Gaul expedition, Cicero had a good chance of...