This is the video in question: http://youtu.be/QBmVwiOQI20
Some specifics I was wondering about if you don't want to watch the whole thing (don't blame you).
They claim that in Caesars final siege in Gaul that the Gauls sent their women and children out of their fort for Caesar to let into the countryside, however, I was under the impression that Caesar would've needed to feed the civilians and didn't have the food to do it. Which is true?
The story of Mark Antony offering Caesar the crown trice is brought up and that it was a PR stunt by Caesar. Did this actually happen? I have always thought this was an invention of Shakespeare.
It is insinuated that Caesar became infected by a parasitic worm in Egypt that caused his epilepsy and made him insane. Is there any evidence supporting this? Was Caesar mad at the end of his life?
It is claimed that Caesar's, "conquest of Gaul" is self-promoting propaganda and mostly made up of lies in order to support his bid for power. Obviously some of his intention was self-promotion, but how accurate is Caesar's writings at deprecating truth?
Sorry for the multi-question, feel free to only answer one or another. Thanks in advance.
Number 2 is not Shakespeare's invention, but is in fact taken from Suetonius' account:
"But from that time on he could not rid himself of the odium of having aspired to the title of monarch, although he replied to the commons, when they hailed him as king, "I am Caesar and no king," and at the Lupercalia, when the consul Antony several times attempted to place a crown upon his head as he spoke from the rostra, he put it aside and at last sent it to the Capitol, to be offered to Jupiter Optimus Maximus."
As for the reliability of Suetonius? I can't find any good threads on here, which is surprising. He is undeniably the most entertaining of the popular Roman historians, but also where we get many of our more outlandish tales of dubious factuality (e.g. Caligula trying to make his horse consul).