When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River, the ground had been softened by decades of political enmity and undermining. If respect would not be given, he would take it by the sword.

When Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his legion, he put everything on the line. In " The Life of the Deified Julius," Suetonius writes that Caesar quoted an Athenian playwright as he crossed the ...

But no man could be consul twice within ten years, so Caesar had to break the law: he crossed the Rubicon River with his legions, bringing them into the Roman heartland, and that triggered a civil ...

It is often said that Julius Caesar brought the Roman Republic to an end when he crossed the Rubicon River with the 13th Legion of the Roman Republican Army on Jan. 10, 49 BC, starting the civil ...

At the riverbank, Caesar paused and, quoting Greek poet Menander, said, “The die is cast,” then crossed. Once in Italy, he was at war with the Roman Senate. There was no going back.

The words are those he is supposed to have uttered as he crossed the Rubicon. He thus defied the Senate of Rome before riding to the capital in 49 B.C. and unleashing a civil war that brought him ...

Long before Rome rose from its seven hills, before Caesar crossed the Rubicon, there was Carthage — the other majestic, maritime, and mercantile great nation of the ancient Mediterranean. Nestled ...

Our American republic is a relatively young 250 years old in comparison to the Roman Republic that was lost when Caesar crossed the Rubicon. But our republic faces an existential crisis every bit ...