Alexander Leith

Classicist Mary Beard asks what do we really know about Julius Caesar? She looks at how he became the autocratic ruler of Rome, the tactics of his military campaigns, his use of PR and at the reasons behind his assassination.

During King Ludwig II's reign, three Gothic fantasy castles were built, their walls adorned with romanticized chivalric scenes and battle depictions, epitomizing the monarch's vision of idealized medieval grandeur in Germany.