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Why was Alexander the Great seen by the Romans as the greatest military leader of the ancient world? This question would ...

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Caesar’s republican opponents considered him a tyrant and assassinated him in 44 B.C., whereupon his grand-nephew Gaius Octavius, or Octavian (the future Augustus), whom he’d designated as his ...

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