"Caesar is what happens when a man who really ought to know better takes it into his head that he, and he personally, can improve upon the failures of an outdated cultural model and use it to impose a vision of a wildly reactionary past on humanity in the name of surviving the future," says Dr. D. "Beginning with teaching squabbling tribals the doctrines of total war, cultural purging, and forced assimilation of the neighbors. I don't know how familiar with really old world history you are, but the man's turned the remains of eighty-six tribes into a grotesque parody of ancient Roman civilization in which all the free men are in the military, all the captured men are either enslaved or slaughtered, and all the women are used for soldiers' wives or concubines, assuming they're not priestesses of Mars or something like that."