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Gaius Julius Caesar is a historical figure who features as a character in the HBO
Home Box Office

HBO is a premium television programming subsidiary of Time Warner. It offers two 24-hour pay television services to over 38 million U.S. subscribers....
/BBC2 original television series Rome
Rome (TV series)

Rome is a British Academy Television Awards, Golden Globe-nominated and Primetime Emmy Award-winning historical drama film television series co-created by John Milius, William J....
, played by Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 actor Ciarán Hinds
Ciarán Hinds

Ciar?n Hinds is an Irish Film and Television Awards award-winning Irish people actor....
. The real Gaius Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar

'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
 was a Roman general who seized control of the Roman government in 45 BC and laid the political foundations for the transition from the Roman Republic
Roman Republic

The Roman Republic was the phase of the Ancient Rome characterized by a republican form of government; a period which began with the overthrow of the Roman Roman Kingdom, c....
 to the Empire
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
.

tious and unscrupulous, Caesar bears a strong resemblance to his real life counterpart
Julius Caesar

'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
.






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Gaius Julius Caesar is a historical figure who features as a character in the HBO
Home Box Office

HBO is a premium television programming subsidiary of Time Warner. It offers two 24-hour pay television services to over 38 million U.S. subscribers....
/BBC2 original television series Rome
Rome (TV series)

Rome is a British Academy Television Awards, Golden Globe-nominated and Primetime Emmy Award-winning historical drama film television series co-created by John Milius, William J....
, played by Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 actor Ciarán Hinds
Ciarán Hinds

Ciar?n Hinds is an Irish Film and Television Awards award-winning Irish people actor....
. The real Gaius Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar

'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
 was a Roman general who seized control of the Roman government in 45 BC and laid the political foundations for the transition from the Roman Republic
Roman Republic

The Roman Republic was the phase of the Ancient Rome characterized by a republican form of government; a period which began with the overthrow of the Roman Roman Kingdom, c....
 to the Empire
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
.

Personality

Ambitious and unscrupulous, Caesar bears a strong resemblance to his real life counterpart
Julius Caesar

'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
. His aims and motives are often kept ambiguous to further complicate the plot and test the personal loyalties of the other characters. Like the real Caesar, he advertises himself as a reformer who sides with the Plebians, even though he is himself a Patrician
Patrician

The term "patrician" originally referred to a group of elitism citizens in ancient Rome, including both their natural and adopted members. In the late Roman empire, the class was broadened to include high council officials, and after the fall of the Western Empire became a term for Byzantine Imperial governors in the West....
. He is also merciful to his beaten enemies, seeming genuinely distressed by their deaths and relieved at their willingness to make peace where a more unscrupulous individual would have simply killed them. Such thinking however, gets him killed by the very people he forgave.

Comparisons with the historical Julius Caesar

The character as portrayed in the series is considered historically accurate despite having little physical resemblance to any known representations of the historical Caesar who was balding and blond.

The story starts in 52 BC as Caesar receives news of his daughter Julia's death; historically, Julia
Julia (daughter of Julius Caesar)

Julia Caesaris , 83 or 82 BC-54 BC, was the daughter of Julius Caesar the Dictator#Classical Rome, by his first wife, Cornelia Cinna minor, and his only child in marriage....
 died in 54 BC. Additionally, no mention is made in Rome to his mother Aurelia
Aurelia Cotta

Aurelia Cotta or Aurelia was the mother of dictator Gaius Julius Caesar. She was a daughter of Rutilia and Lucius Aurelius Cotta. Her father was consul in 119 BC and her paternal grandfather of the same name was consul in 144 BC....
, who died months after Julia. There is nothing in the historical sources to suggest that his affair with Servilia Caepionis
Servilia Caepionis

Servilia Caepionis is one of the few Rome women cited by ancient sources, mainly because she was the mistress of Julius Caesar, mother of one of Caesar's assassins, Marcus Junius Brutus, mother-in-law of another Caesar assassin Gaius Cassius Longinus, and half-sister of Cato the Younger....
 ended, as is depicted in the series.

Caesarion
Caesarion

Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar, nicknamed Caesarion Greek language: ?t??e?a??? ??' F???p?t?? F?????t?? ?a?sa?, ?a?sa????, Ptolemaios Philop?tor Philom?tor Kaisar, Kaisar?on was the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, who reigned, as a child, jointly with his mother Cleopatra VII of Egypt from S...
 was likely the son of Cleopatra and Caesar. The events of the episode Caesarion insinuate that he may actually have been fathered by soldier Titus Pullo
Titus Pullo (character of Rome)

Titus Pullo is a fictional character from the HBO/BBC original television series Rome , played by Ray Stevenson . He is depicted as a friendly, upbeat, devil-may-care soldier with the morals of a pirate, the appetites of a hedonist, and a total lack of personal responsibility, who discovers hidden ideals and integrity within himself....
. Though Caesar is shown presenting his newborn son to his army at the end of this episode, historically Caesar was already back in Rome by the time Caesarion was born.