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Might help if you open your eyes a little. As for not being at risk in Gaul, are you serious? He was sometimes found in the front rank fighting alongside his men. I call that a little risky, never mind the hazards of war lasting for years, involving not only the defeat of an entire region but twice making a landing on foreign shores. Caesar did not destroy the sovereignty of the Senate. They never had any to begin with. But as it happens, Caesar was careful enough to recognise that the Senate contained the most influential men in society and treated them respectfully even after assuming full ruling power as dictator-for-life. Hardly Rome's greatest enemy, and bear in mind, it was a minority of senators who acted against him, typical of their comnspiratorial behaviour.

He's a flawed hero to me. I find him much more human as a character than Octavian/Augustus; but there are aspects of his character than repel as well as attract. I like his pragmatism; his flexibility; his many-sided talent. I regret the way he died at the hands of purblind, self-interested, shallow, jealous and narrow-minded fools, none of whom came up to the laces of his senatorial boots. Phil