About Adrian Goldsworthy: Adrian Keith Goldsworthy is a British historian and author who specialises in ancient Roman history.
Caesar was a serial seducer of married women.
For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]
Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]