Chronology
Every drafted work, year by year, alongside the events of Caesar's life. Runs of consecutive letters are folded into groups so you can skim past them or expand to read.
51 BC
Age ~49. Caesar is in the eighth year of the Gallic campaigns, writing up the war's commentaries in spare third-person prose even as he fights it. At Rome, Pompey and the senatorial bloc maneuver to strip his command — the standoff that will drive him across the Rubicon the next year.
hist The Gallic War 51 BC47 BC
Age ~53. Having crossed the Rubicon in 49 and shattered Pompey at Pharsalus in 48, Caesar is now effectively master of Rome. He is entangled in Egypt with Cleopatra and mopping up the last Pompeian resistance; the Civil War commentaries set down his side of how it came to this.
hist The Civil War 47 BC