Highly Talented but Unknown Aspiring Author Seeking Donations - caesarlives.com

The very talented and aspiring writer Jamie Macek is writing the first volume in a new historical fiction series about Julius Caesar surviving the assassination on the Ides of March and continuing to carry out his plans for the future of the Roman Empire. Donate and help support his endeavor.

(PRWEB) March 31, 2005 -- Jamie Macek is beginning to write his first book, "Caesar Lives, Volume I: The Ides of March", which will ideally be the first in a series. An un-published and unknown writer, Mr. Macek has gotten very good feedback on what writings he has done to-date. Previously he was adapting a 6-book series called "The Masters of Rome" into scipts, and Dr. McCullough herself has communicated with Mr. Macek repeatedly about this ongoing work.

Mr. Macek's new book book will begin with the infamous assassination attempt which took place on The Ides of March. Julius Caesar will survive the assassination attempt, and the book's central story will be about Caesar's Invasion of the Parthian Kingdom. This Parthian Campaign would've been the largest military expedition in Roman history. The Parthians were unlike any enemy Rome had ever fought, were not at all impressed by the disciplined Roman Legions, and Caesar knew they would eventually launch their own invasion of Roman territories, which they ended up doing in 40 B.C..

What Caesar was masterly planning would've been an immense military expedition in the style of Alexander the Great.

- It would've lasted a minimum of 5 years.

- 15 Roman Legions would be going - between 65,000-80,000 troops - all of which were to be re-enlisted, experienced veterans.

- 10,000 German, Gallic, and Galatian cavalry would be going.

- Each Legion would have 100 artillery pieces - 1,500 in all - each with 100 pieces of ammunition.

- Marcus Cicero wrote that he didn't think Caesar would ever have returned.

- A Sibylline Prophecy said that no Roman armies would ever be successful against the Parthians unless they were led by a King.

- After defeating Parthia, Caesar planned on continuing beyond the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus, invading Scythia, overrunning the territories between Scythia and Germany before overrunning Germany itself, then returning to Italy through Gaul - thus making a complete circuit of the extent of Roman Provincial Boundaries.

Other central characters will include Cleopatra, Octavian (Augustus), Mark Antony, Marcus Cicero, and Caesar's 'other' mistress at the time, Servilia, also the mother of the would-be assassin Brutus.

Mr. Macek's website - http://www.caesarlives.com - describes this endeavor in greater detail, and has a link to the Amazon Honor System at amazon.com, where anyone who'd like to donate can do so.

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