The leaders of Rome grow ever more frightened, yet ever more obdurate the brilliant, ruthlessly autocratic Gaius Julius Caesar must be crushed and sent into a permanent exile before he can overthrow government and set himself up as dictator. The events in Caesar chronicle the struggle for dominance between Rome's Senate and its nemesis, Caesar.
But when he returns to Rome he lays down arms only to take up another battle: this time for political power. This is a war waged with words,