I suppose at one time I hadn't read enough about the civil war, and then as other threads were more active I never got around to writing here.

*going off on a sidetrack again, though* Heraklia, you wrote:

I wonder what would have happened if there had never been the confrontation with Pompey, never a Civil War. Would Caesar be remembered? Perhaps, hehoped to be Consul a second time? It was the war and its preludes that gave him the ability to break out of the mold and become Dictator - what if no such opportunity had existed? Wars always create opportunities that weren't there before.

One of ADI's newest members, Quintus Julius Caesar, has created a role play group called Caesar's Coda; one of its boards, he asks the same sort of questions, points out several key points in Caesar's life and career which, had they had different outcomes, would perhaps have changed history, and gives its members an opportunity to write their answers as alternative history.