He was the ruler of Rome and in time, a god, but Julius Caesar was also a human being. First published in 1948, this brilliant epistolary novel by the author of Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey shows us Caesar as he appeared to his family, his legions, and his empire in the months just before his death in March of 44 BC. In Thornton Wilder's inventive narrative, all Rome comes crowding through his pages: Romans of the slums, of the villas, of the palaces, brawling youths and noble ladies and prostitutes, and the spies and assassins stalking Caesar.