Caesar would not live to see it. He was, instead, assassinated on the floor of the Senate for his hubris. The long, slow ...

The afternoon sun drenches Ravenna in sepia and yellow as moist air wafts in from the nearby Adriatic. It’s easy to imagine emperor-to-be Julius Caesar’s early evening in January 49 B.C. in Ravenna, ...

This week (Jan. 10 by the Roman calendar) in 49 B.C., Roman proconsul Julius Caesar and his army crossed the Rubicon River, which marked the boundary between the Roman province of Gaul and Italy ...

In 49 B.C. on the banks of the Rubicon, Julius Caesar faced a critical choice. To remain in Gaul meant forfeiting his power to his enemies in Rome. Crossing the river into Italy would be a declaration ...

In response to the outrageous invasion of Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago, several people have suggested the deep state in general—and the FBI in particular—have "crossed the Rubicon." On Monday, Buck ...

Italy (WHTM) — 2073 years later, it’s an idiom that’s still in use. “Crossing the Rubicon” has come to mean taking a course of action from which there is no turning back. It’s an early version of ...