![]() Caesar reminds the boy king that he is a vassal of Rome, which further enrages the young monarch. He calls in debts owed to Rome by Egypt, at which Ptolemy becomes angered and dismissive of Caesar. The next day Caesar orders Vorenus and Pullo to find Cleopatra and bring her to him, while he brings the Egyptians to heel. Knowing that the internal strife in Egypt has the potential to disrupt the grain supply to Rome, with dire consequences, Caesar sends Antony and half of the Thirteenth back to Rome while he remains in Egypt with the other half, intending to arbitrate the dispute between Ptolemy and Cleopatra rather than fight. He gives Pompey's head a Roman funeral, and weeps as it burns on the funeral pyre. Caesar, however, is angered and upset by the revelation and demands that the Egyptians hand the killer over to him. Hoping to win Caesar's support, Ptolemy and his courtiers tell him that they have had Pompey murdered and bring Caesar Pompey's severed head, imagining that he would be pleased at the death of his enemy. He learns that Ptolemy's sister-wife, Cleopatra, has challenged his rule and is being held under house arrest. Upon arriving in Egypt, Caesar meets with the boy king Ptolemy XIII, whom he finds arrogant and insufferable. Caesar learns from Vorenus and Pullo, who coincidentally ran into Pompey after his defeat, that Pompey has gone to Egypt and follows him, hoping to accept his surrender. Caesar readily forgives both men, but is saddened to learn that Pompey has no intention of surrendering, and has instead fled with his family and a small entourage, and that Scipio and Cato are determined to continue the war in Africa. After Pompey unnecessarily gives battle to at Pharsalus, Caesar crushes Pompey's forces and later accepts the surrender of Marcus Junius Brutus and Marcus Tullius Cicero, who had both joined Pompey's faction at the beginning of the civil war. With defeat now a very real possibility, he summons Antony and the Thirteenth to reinforce him. After resting in Rome temporarily, and being forced to abandon his long-time mistress Servilia of the Junii in order to maintain his political marriage to Calpurnia, Caesar leaves the city, leaving Antony and the Thirteenth behind to maintain order, and pursues Pompey to Greece, where he loses the first battles to Pompey's forces. By moving quickly Caesar is able to catch Pompey off guard and the older man is forced to abandon Rome, which Caesar takes without resistance. Caesar, sensing another opportunity Caesar incites the Thirteenth to willingly cross the river Rubicon armed, making themselves rebels and traitors, and march on Rome. Antony is forced to flee the city and the declaration of Caesar's criminality is passed. However, Antony fails when a mob of Pompey's men defy his orders and attack Antony and his escort of Thirteenth men, including Vorenus and Pullo. Caesar marches back toward Italy, and winters the Thirteenth at Ravenna.Ĭaesar sends Mark Antony ahead to Rome in order to take up the office of Tribune of the Plebs with orders to ensure that Caesar will be able to be spared a criminal trial in Rome by his enemies. However, Vorenus and Pullo, as well as Caesar's great-nephew Octavian, return with his eagle and reveal Pompey's involvement in the eagle's theft. Not expecting that they will succeed, Caesar in fact hopes that the eagle will remain lost, tricking Pompey into believing that Caesar is weak and underestimating him. Caesar tasks Mark Antony, who in turn tasks Lucius Vorenus, with finding the eagle. ![]() Immediately after Alesia, the eagle standard of Legio XIII Gemina, one of Caesar's legions and the legion of Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, is stolen. ![]() This is to no avail, however, as Pompey marries Cornelia, the daughter of Caesar's outspoken critic Scipio. On the same day, however, he receives news of his daughter Julia's death, and attempts to marry another of the women in his family to Pompey, Julia's widower, in order to maintain their alliance. Anxious not to appear as a tyrant or a king, Caesar is nonetheless not above using dark methods to further his ends, arranging the assassinations of certain critics of his as well as rigging elections to ensure a favorable outcome for himself.Īt the beginning of Season One, Caesar has just won an eight-year war of conquest in Gaul, and accepts the surrender of Vercingetorix, the Gallic leader, after the battle of Alesia. He attempts to make life fairer for the plebeians of Rome, though this angers the patrician elite and is ultimately his downfall. He is a forgiving man, readily granting amnesty to everyone of Pompey's faction who deserts to his cause or surrenders to him after Pompey's defeat. He usually maintains a calm demeanor, though has been known to enter into rages when pushed too far. Caesar is a man of both military and political talent, charismatic and shrewd, calculating and deliberate. ![]()
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