Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, leader, orator—and one of history’s most infamous assassins. Why did he launch a ...

JULIUS CAESAR: THE MAKING OF A DICTATOR is a new three-part BBC-produced historical docudrama that explores how the nearly five-centuries-old Roman democracy was overthrown in just 16 years. The story ...

It’s astounding that so few fans of martial sagas like “The Lord of the Rings” and “Game of Thrones” have found their way to the narratives of the Greek and Roman historians. In these works, too, one ...

Mark Antony, a jockish favourite of Caesar’s, is not invited, but, fatally underestimated by the naive Brutus, seizes his chance to foment civil war in the power vacuum that follows the putsch and ...

The three-part docuseries, “Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator” will broadcast at 6 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, on New Mexico PBS’ World, channel 5.4. It is also available to stream on the PBS app.

“Friends, Harlemites, countrymen, lend me your ears.” The Folger has brought the Bard uptown, courtesy of Al Letson’s Julius X, a deft reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragedy Julius Caesar as a depiction ...