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In the final months of 48 BC, Julius Caesar found himself trapped in Alexandria.

He was besieged in the royal quarter of the city, the palace district, home to many of Alexandria's cultural treasures.

The Roman was just barely able to keep the palace secure with his relatively small legionary force,

but he was very aware that he could not hold out forever. He was surrounded by both the Royal Egyptian Army

and the rioting citizens of Alexandria who were a military concern all their own. How had it come to this?

Caesar had been on the precipice of winning a brutal Roman civil war and now he found himself

in peril of losing his life in an Egyptian civil war.

Caesar had arrived in Alexandria a few weeks earlier chasing his rival Pompey, the leader of the

rival faction and the Roman power struggle. Pompey had been on the run after losing the decisive

battle of farcelless to Caesar, but when Caesar eventually caught up with Pompey in Alexandria,

he was shocked to discover that his fellow Roman consul had been unceremoniously

beheaded by the Egyptians in an ill-conceived attempt to curry favor with Caesar.

Caesar was disgusted and saddened by the death of Pompey, or maybe he just pretended to be

disgusted and saddened. The ancient sources contradict each other on this point.

Pompey had at one time been Caesar's friend and political ally, so the feelings of grief may

have been very real. But perhaps more importantly, the Egyptians had denied Caesar the public relations

coup that would have come with pardoning his old rival and welcoming him into the new regime.

Now, the frustration of this unwelcome assassination aside, Caesar decided that he was not going to

leave Egypt until he had set their house in order. You see, the Egyptians were in the midst of their

own civil war, between the sibling Comonarchs, Talami the 13th and his sister Cleopatra the 7th.

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