Today in 49BC Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, saying to his followers, 'The die is cast.' It was the beginning of the end of The Republic.
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Didn’t anyone explain what ‘Crossing the Rubicon’ meant?
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I have many ancient Rome tweets can I be at least second favorite?
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Incredible that the metaphor has survived 2,000 years right up to this age when even yesterday’s news is already forgotten
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My 9yr old’s special topic at school this term is The Romans. We were talking about Caesar a lot after school, checking out his Wiki page etc. He’s trying to get to sleep, but I just barged in to show him this.
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How do dates like that work...? We've introduced a different calendar system since then. Surely the 10th of January is a different monster now, more than 2000 years later?
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It’s a good question. Is the date defined after the introduction of the Julian calendar?
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