Caesar's Women Author:Colleen McCullough Caesar's Women is the fourth historical novel in Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series, published on 21 March 1996. — The novel is set during a ten-year interval, from 68-58 BC, which Julius Caesar spent mainly in Rome, climbing the political ladder and outmanoeuvering his many enemies. It opens with Caesar returning early from his quaestor... more »ship in Spain, and closes with his epochal departure for the Gallic campaigns.« less