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    Caesar's bridges across the Rhine, the first two bridges on record to cross the Rhine river, were built by Julius Caesar and his legionaries during the...
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    Antony and cremated Caesar's body in the Forum. After Julia's death, Pompey and Caesar's alliance began to fade, which resulted in Caesar's civil war. It was...
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    Minor, and Julius Caesar the dictator was born to them in 100 BC. He was the brother of Sextus Julius Caesar (consul in 91 BC). Caesar's progress through...
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    (Trajan's Bridge, Constantine's Bridge) and the middle and lower Rhine by four different bridges (the Roman Bridge at Mainz, Caesar's Rhine bridges, the Roman...
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    Battle of Vosges (58 BC) (category Battles of Julius Caesar)
    borderlands of Gaul, and allowed the temporary construction of Caesar's Rhine bridges for a tactical punitive assault staged in western Germania. In 61 BC...
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    Dictator perpetuo (category Julius Caesar)
    regular Roman dictatorship, it elevated Caesar's to a rank more akin to the ancient Roman kings. Julius Caesar held the dictator position for only eleven...
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    adultery with Clodius. Caesar's reason for the divorce was that "Caesar's wife, like all Caesar's family, must be beyond suspicion". The Roman tribe Aurelia...
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  • Plutarch paired Caesar with Alexander the Great, the other grand victor of classical antiquity. Unlike most of the other Parallel Lives, Caesar's Life is more...
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  • Clodius entered Caesar's house disguised as a woman, supposedly to seduce Pompeia. Although Clodius was acquitted, the incident led Caesar, then the Pontifex...
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    political science, the term Caesarism identifies and describes an authoritarian and autocratic ideology inspired by Julius Caesar, the dictator of Rome, from...
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    Curia of Pompey (category Assassination of Julius Caesar)
    Ancient Rome by L. Richardson, Jr., Richardson states that after Caesar's murder, Augustus Caesar removed the large statue of Pompey and had the hall walled...
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    but the imminent Roman Civil War led to the withdrawal of Caesar's troops in 50 BC. Caesar's wild successes in the war had made him wealthy and provided...
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    courts a detailed account of the affair he had with Pompeia, Julius Caesar's wife. Caesar divorced Pompeia over the scandal. Julia married Marcus Atius Balbus...
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    driver is a heavy-duty tool used to drive piles into soil to build piers, bridges, cofferdams, and other "pole" supported structures, and patterns of pilings...
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    by bridges. This list includes both existing and former bridges over the Rhine, sorted by the sections of the river. Within each section, bridges are...
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    body of water. An example of temporary military bridge construction is the two Caesar's Rhine bridges. The Romans built many dams for water collection...
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    escape to Greece, abandoning Italy in face of Caesar's superior forces and evading Caesar's pursuit. Caesar stayed near Rome for about two weeks – during...
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    veterans, enrolled in Caesar's army after the Battle of Pharsalus. The loyalty of the soldiers who were supposed to fight against Caesar's heir was a delicate...
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    Julia gens (redirect from Claudius Caesar)
    Claudius, and Nero, as members either by adoption or female descent of Caesar's family; but though the family became extinct with Nero, succeeding emperors...
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  • Pons Sublicius (category Bridges in Rome)
    the bridge was supported by pilings driven into the riverbed. Julius Caesar’s engineers used this construction to bridge the Rhine. The bridge was rebuilt...
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    bridges Trajan's Dacian Wars Constantine's Bridge (Danube) Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli "Информациони систем непокретних културних добара". The bridge seems...
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    Genetrix was completed after Caesar's assassination by Roman senators, which included lavish games in reference to Caesar's original dedication of the Forum...
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    work was completed. The project was eventually finished by Caesar's successor, Augustus Caesar, in 29 BC. The Curia Julia is one of a handful of Roman structures...
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    managed to complete the bridge in ten days, an accomplishment comparable to Caesar's Rhine bridges two thousand years before. The bridge was opened to traffic...
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    family. The Temple was dedicated on 26 September 46 BC, the last day of Caesar's triumph. The forum and temple were eventually completed by Octavian. The...
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    raids, and more than 95 percent destroyed. On 10 March 1945 the Rhine and Lippe bridges, among others, were blown up by the Wehrmacht in compliance with...
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  • books on "pneumatic medicine", oil mills, ancient mechanics and Caesar's Rhine bridges, as well a several articles for the Realencyclopädie der classischen...
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    Roman Bridges, Cambridge University Press, p. 141 (T11), ISBN 0-521-39326-4 List of Roman bridges List of bridges in Germany "The Roman Bridge - Places...
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    Neuwied (category Populated places on the Rhine)
    Neuwied, one of the largest Roman castra on the Rhine has been excavated by archeologists. Caesar's Rhine bridges are believed to have been built nearby. Neuwied...
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    Pons Aemilius (category Bridges to nowhere)
    Platner (1929), pp. 397–8. "Broken Bridge". Virtual Roma. Retrieved March 6, 2014. Balance, M. H. (1951). "The Roman Bridges of the Via Flaminia". Papers of...
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