Gaius Julius Caesar, was one of the world gretest military commanders. He was considered to possess a huge quantity of personal ambition. Julius Caesar was bisexual - it was said of him that he was "every women's husband, every man's wife".

When he was around 20 Julius was sent to Bithynia which was conquered by Alexander the Great became an independent country and was given to Rome in 74 bc. Bithynia was also the land where Antinous was born. Julius became the young lover of the King of Bithynia, Nicomedes IV. His image was damaged when the public learned that he was the bottom to Nicomedes, as reported by Cicero.

When Nicomedes died, he left his kingdom to Rome. Although being the bottom of an adult man was considered inappropriate for all but adolescent boys during Caesar's time, the fashion later changed, leading one anonymous writer to remark that "Roma, which delighted in making love from behind, spelled Amor-love- by inverting it own name."

Caesar is thought to have had affairs also with Mark Antony and his young ambitious nephew Augustus Octavian Caesar, who became his adopted son.

A patrician, he allied himself with the popular party, and when elected Aedile in 65 BC, nearly ruined himself with lavish amusement for the Roman populace. Althought a free thinker, he was elected chief pontiff in 63, and in 61 BC was appointed governor of Spain.

Returning to Rome in 60, he formed with Pompey and Crassus the first triumvirate, but as governor of Gaul was engaged in its subjugation 58-50 BC, defeating the Germans under Ariovistus, and selling thousands of the Belgic tribes into slavery. In 55 he crossed into Britain, with a further campaigning visit in 54 BC:

A revolt by the Gauls in 52 BC, under Vercingetorix, was crushed in 51 BC. His governorship of Spain was to end in 49, and Crassus being dead, Pompey was now a rival. Declaring "the die is cast", Caesar crossed the Rubicon (a small river near Rimini separating Gaul from Italy) to meet the army raised against him.

In the ensuing civil war he followed Pompey to Epirus in 48 BC, defeating him at Pharsalus, and chased him to Egypt, where Pompey was murdered. Caesar stayed some months in Egypt, where he had a son, Cesarion, by Cleopatra, then executed a lightening campaign in 47 BC against King Pharnaces in Asia Minor, which he summarized "veni, vidi, vici" (I came, saw and won).

By his final victory in Spain at Munda in 45 BC over the sons of Pompey, he established his position, having been awarded a ten-year dictatorship in 46 BC. On March 15, 44 BC, however, he was stabbed to death at the foot of Pompey's statue by Brutus and Cassius, in the Senate house.