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When people think of Rome, images flash into the mind. Julius Caesar? No paintings remain, just statues – and the Asterix books. We have an image of a stern, wiry man aged about 50, wearing a wreath.
The truth is trickier. Caesar went bald fairly early on, though he made sure all his statues had hair. Otherwise, the image is about right. His name, pronounced ‘ka-azer’, came to mean ‘king’ in nations as far apart as the czars of