Tomorrow marks the 2053 anniversary of the assassination of Gaius Iulius Caesar.  It's a sad day.  There was one of the most unique characters and forces in Roman History.  A man who had the potential to correct many of the flaws that the Roman Republic was facing.  He was a man ahead of his time.  He made very few missteps but the biggest ones were when he was Dictator.  So many books have been written about him...but the one's I enjoy the most are the First Man in Rome Series..while historical fiction they do tend to put some personality into him and other great figures in the Late Roman Republic (like Cicero, Brutus and Cato and lesser known but just as influential personalties like Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix).

Even to this day in Rome, people put flowers on Caesar's grave.  How amazing is that.

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