Rome: The World's First Superpower

Caesar (1x4)

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Larry uses Caesar's memoirs as a guide to follow the extraordinary journey he made from a bankrupt junior public official to the general who conquered Gaul, through to his assassination. He looks at the history of the man, right back from his humble beginnings on the Channel Island of Jersey, which once was the Northern Edge of the Roman world. Larry then heads to Alesia, in Central France to look at Caesar's most decisive military victory. He retraces Caesar's campaign here, using infra-red technology. In Rome itself, Larry looks at what led Caesar into making the decision to cross the Rubicon and declare civil war with the Republic. Both friends and enemies of the leader were opposed to the civil war and plotted to assassinate the leader. Larry reflects on the mans life and how Julius' work opened the way for a new age of emperors known as Caesars.