Alberto Angela’s highly entertaining two-hour (non-stop) historic lesson on Julius Caesar at Rome’s Auditorium, December 13th, 2025

Alberto Angela held a most entertaining and also informative historic lesson at Rome’s Parco della Musica (aka Auditorium) on one of the world’s most famous political and military leaders, Julius Caesar.  Caesar (born in 100 B.C. and died in 44 B.C.) was a Roman general and statesman.  He became consul in 59. Between 58 and 51 he fought the Gallic Wars, invaded Britain (55–54) and acquired immense power. After a civil war with Pompey, which ended in Pompey's defeat at Pharsalus, Caesar became dictator of the Roman Empire (contrary to popular belief he was not an emperor). He was murdered in the center of Rome at Largo Argentina on the Ides of March (on the 15th) in a conspiracy led by Brutus and Cassius.

 
Alberto Angela was born in Paris in 1962 and is a highly successful author and paleontologist (his academic studies include Harvard, Columbia and also UCLA).   He is also a very popular tv journalist-host and many of his interesting documentaries have also included the very last days of life in Pompeii. 

 
Angela’s Rome lesson included the origins of Caesar, his many foreign conquests and brutal battles and ended with his tragic death in Rome. Using AI and other state-of-the-art archeological software he and his team of researchers managed to also come up with a rather good image of what Julius must have looked like (and Caesar’s old saying, “The die has been cast”!, derives from the fact that he had dared cross the Rubicon river which eventually led to a civil war in 49 B.C.).

  
 
 
Angela was on hand to also promote his latest book, “Caesar, the Conquest of Eternity” (your correspondent has seven books on Rome by Angela).