Caesar's Gallic Wars in his own inimitable words - exciting, brutal and interesting to see the way Caesar chose to portray himself to the Senate and people of Rome

Plutarch's biography of Caesar (amongst others). He paired it with his equally enthralling biography of Alexander as he saw the two men as parallels, but irritatingly that's in another volume.

Not as racy and readable as Plutarch and Suetonius, but good on the detail leading up to the time of Caesar and the faults in the system which he exploited

This looks like a chick-lit page-turner, but is actually an amazingly detailed re-telling of the political infighting during Caesar's early career before he goes to Gaul. Covers the year of his consul

Caesar is assassinated half way through, and though McCullough manfully carries on with Augustus,the energy of the book is dissipated.

Interesting literary novel which mediates on life, death, responsibility and relations with others. Written in epistolary mode, so Caesar's fictiona;l own words

Lucan was the nephew of Seneca living under Nero so his re-telling of the wars is coloured by his views of the abuse of power by the emperors