Abstract
By making use of sources ranging from the poems of Catullus, the works of biographer Suetonius, to films such as Julius Caesar (1953), Cleopatra (1963) and TV series like Rome (2005 - 2007) and Spartacus (2010 - 2013), this research aims to analyze the discourses construed in Antiquity about the virility of the Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar (c. 100 - 44 BC) in order to compare…