Portrayal of Julius Caesar?


I love this controversial series, despite it's odd forays into historical fantasy, but what the heck happened to the portrayal of Julius Caesar?

He is [in this] blonde, muscular and handsome, which I assume from the classical sources that even a younger Caesar was perhaps none of those, but instead maybe slight, dark-haired and balding, hence the famous laurel 'tiara'? Also I understand Caesar was quite stern and serious, like the portrayal of Octavian in 'Rome'?

Caesar personally did fight, so must have been quite fit, but not to this level?

I notice there was no mention of Caesar's rumoured affair with King Nicomedes of Bithynia, the epithet of which "Queen of Bithynia" was levelled at him throughout his career and sung by his troops, whose campaign [in this series] he had just returned from?

History aside, Caesar's visual and character portrayal was way off.

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