last night while working at one of my new 'properties.' He had me in stitches with a running commentary about the inanities of the BBC1 show as he watched it; not only historically INACCURATE, but from the git-go, like Tacitus, they showed Caesar in only one presentation, and that was a nasty one. It sounds like they got some marketing experts to read one book on Caesar to write THAT script.

As I said to Imperator - one of the side-effects IMHO of the calamitous 20th century was the determination of ALL ancient world (and even modern world) historians that each and every warlord or great military leader, Alexander, Caesar, Bismarck, you name it - would be portrayed as a Mussolini or a Hitler in little. I view it as a very sad phase, because if we simply demonize the "great men" of history (the "great women" is another subject entirely), then we make it altogether too easy to blame Caesar for the death of the Republic, rather than truly looking at the terrain on the ground in the times in which he lived. It's silly and short-sighted to the max.

It is also easy to remember and popular.

My studies in preparation of my Alexander web site made me realize that the "conventional tale" about Alexander is almost certainly NOT what really happened - the sex-made drunken megalomaniac of popular fiction is ludicrous in terms of history. Caesar suffers the same problem.

I can only hope, if we don't all blow ourselves up, that a more balanced perspective will arrive, perhaps in 2075?