It charts his involvement with the debates of the Cataline Conspiracy, his rivalry with Cato, the scandal of the Bona Dea ritual, the return of Pompey Magnus to Rome, and finally his election to the consulship of Rome.
Caesar has brokered an uneasy alliance with the two other most powerful men in the republic: Pompey and Crassus. Between them, they dominate the political system, and Caesar appears untouchable
