Julius Caesar survives his Assassination and get calpurnia pregnant with a son

So Julius caeser is saved from assassination by being tipped off to it in the nick of time. After realizing he could have almost died he decides to have some I've survived sex with his wife. This gets his 31 year old wife pregnant. And nine months later a son is born that will grow up to be more brilliant then his father but also one of the most argoent men who ever lived.

While the sons growing up his fathers away conquering Parthia west of the zargos and dacia. After those conquest are done he put up his sword and sends out younger men to do the military work for him while he rules rome and raises his son. He dies just after his son turns 25.

This son desires to give Rome an empire like that of Trajan that includes Arabia, the rest of the british isles, Berber and garmante territory, Nubia, Scandinavia, and Europe to the Vistula and Dniester. Can he do it if given suffient power? And what would his position be after his fathers death?
 
I mean...there's a lot of variables here. You need a suitable constitutional settlement to pacify the angered, scorned, cornered and resolved Roman elite...just as you need to factor in the divergent ambitions and post-POD careers of figures such as Mark Antony, Fulvia, Cleopatra, Octavian, Ahenobarbus etc. You propose a grandiose scenario where Caesar crushes the Parthians, annexes part of their empire and then ceases military operations, living long and peacefully enough (he was 56 when he died, you're looking for him to make it to 81) to transfer power to his son, who at 25 would be rather young by Roman standards to sit as consul, let alone rule the Republic alone and unimpeded.

So - can he do it? What would his position be? The answer to both of these questions depends on what Caesar did (and how he did it) in that 25 year interim from when the greater part of the Senate wanted him dead to when his son hits 25 in the midst of a new generation which knows nothing but the rule of Caesar.
 
For that matter, can an arrogant man navigate the politics of Rome without alienating potential allies and infuriating powerful enemies?
 
I mean...there's a lot of variables here. You need a suitable constitutional settlement to pacify the angered, scorned, cornered and resolved Roman elite...just as you need to factor in the divergent ambitions and post-POD careers of figures such as Mark Antony, Fulvia, Cleopatra, Octavian, Ahenobarbus etc. You propose a grandiose scenario where Caesar crushes the Parthians, annexes part of their empire and then ceases military operations, living long and peacefully enough (he was 56 when he died, you're looking for him to make it to 81) to transfer power to his son, who at 25 would be rather young by Roman standards to sit as consul, let alone rule the Republic alone and unimpeded.

So - can he do it? What would his position be? The answer to both of these questions depends on what Caesar did (and how he did it) in that 25 year interim from when the greater part of the Senate wanted him dead to when his son hits 25 in the midst of a new generation which knows nothing but the rule of Caesar.
Your right this what if may be too complex for me
 
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