Out of all the Roman emperors, Julius Caesar is easily the most famous, or should we say infamous. He was a brutal dictator and conqueror who had full control over the Roman people and its vast empire for decades until he was viciously assassinated in 44BC.
This 2018 Julius Caesar Revealed BBC documentary narrated by Mary Beard examines who this man really was and puts forward a hypothesis that not much has really changed in modern-day leaders.
Yes Putin and Trump have cultivated their strong militaristic image much in the same way that Caesar more than 2000 years ago.
