Christ was Julius Caesar via Peter Stothard:
A call comes today asking why I haven't accepted that the life of Jesus Christ was invented in imitation of the life of Julius Caesar. read on
WSJ review: What came after the Ides of March
Caesar: A Life in Western Culture
By Maria Wyke
(University of Chicago Press, 287 pages)
http://www.carotta.de/ (whatever one makes of that)