In what ways was Julius Caesar representative of all that was good and bad about the Romans?

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Answer 1

The personal courage of Caesar was indisputable; he was the recipient of one of Rome's highest awards for valour. His accounts of inspiring his troops when their morale faltered, by entering the fray at the most threatened point and personally fighting in the front lines, although self serving, were credible to those who knew him.
Caesar's practice was to win his wars, (except perhaps for the raid on Britain): as it was with previous generations of Americans. Caesar, like Napoleon, was noted for his celerity and daring and determination. He was not only a courageous soldier, a skillful organiser and a successful and popular military leader; he was also a man of culture, appreciative of art and literature, (and the successful author of his own propaganda and memoirs), and like all leading Roman politicians, an excellent public speaker.
Caesar is said to have been able to master epilepsy, and to have exercised notable self discipline and self control. He could be ruthless, but also clement. He was never petty. He had a legendary sex drive and was something of a megalamoniac. One wonders whether his writing of the Gallic wars was perhaps motivated by a desire for glory (although he hid behind the third person in writing them).

Answer 2

Short Answer: Julius Caesar was the son of a Noble but impoverished family.
He married Gaius Pompeius's daughter and skipped steps on the way to a career at the top of the government. He was intelligent, an able general, good with people, cultured, and smart enough to see that Rome's oligarchic republic with nobility and plebeians had a government unsuited to its expansionists' policy. His goal in ending the civil war, pursuing Pompey and annexing Egypt added this rich province to the empire already begun with conquests of the Greek kingdoms and Carthage. He employed able men and was prepared to rule
all those prepared to obey.
His worst qualities were statisms--a desire to be held to be infallible, and all that went with his desire to be not first citizen any longer but "emperor/basileus/king" in all-but-name. The same man who said, "Caesar's wife must be thought above reproach" himself was dallying with Cleopatra and trying to reconcile his tyrannic one-man-rule ambitions with the impossibility of being declared king in Rome and Italia--when he was struck down, by representatives of the vast nobility group his claim to de facto godhood would have made now his slaves--obedient to his whims; as well as he and his followers were co-conspirators against Rome's elective republican traditions, limited as they were. Hs ambitions had wounded the Senatorial constitution beyond repair.

Answer 3

The good, was a minimal form of democracy, via the creation of the Senate, however, the bad was the decadent behavior which these senators displayed...as usual..abuse of power to the people, given by the people...History has show us that nothing has changed since then...:)

Answer 4

Gaius Julius Caesar [1] (Latin pronunciation [ˈgaːjus ˈjuːlius ˈkaɪsar]; English pronunciation [ˈgaɪəs ˈdʒuːliəs ˈsiːzəɹ]; July 12 or July 13, 100 BC – March 15, 44 BC), often simply referred to as Julius Caesar, was a Roman military and political leader and one of the most influential men in world history. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. His conquest of Gaul extended the Roman world all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, and he was also responsible for the first Roman invasion of Britain in 55 BC.

Leading his legions across the Rubicon, Caesar sparked civil war in 49 BC that left him the undisputed master of the Roman world. After assuming control of the government, he began extensive reforms of Roman society and government. He was proclaimed dictator for life, and he heavily centralized the bureaucracy of the Republic. These events incited a friend of Caesar, Marcus Junius Brutus, who then conspired with others to murder the dictator and restore the Republic. This dramatic assassination occurred on the Ides of March (March 15th) in 44 BC and led to another Roman civil war. In 42 BC, two years after his assassination, the Roman Senate officially sanctified him as one of the Roman deities.

Caesar's military campaigns are known in detail from his own written Commentaries (Commentarii), and many details of his life are recorded by later historians, such as Appian, Suetonius, Plutarch, Cassius Dio and Strabo. Other information can be gleaned from other contemporary sources, such as the letters and speeches of Caesar's political rival Cicero, the poetry of Catullus and the writings of the historian Sallust.

Historians place the generalship of Caesar on the level of such military geniuses as Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Genghis Khan and Napoleon Bonaparte. Although he suffered occasional tactical defeats, such as Battle of Gergovia during the Gallic War and The Battle of Dyrrhachium during the Civil War, Caesar's tactical brilliance was highlighted by such feats as his circumvallation of Alesia during the Gallic War, the rout of Pompey's numerically superior forces at Pharsalus during the Civil War, and the complete destruction of Pharnaces' army at Battle of Zela.

Caesar's successful campaigning in any terrain and under all weather conditions owes much to the strict but fair discipline of his legionaries, whose admiration and devotion to him were proverbial due to his promotion of those of skill over those of nobility. Caesar's infantry and cavalry were first rate, and he made heavy use of formidable Roman artillery; additional factors that made him so effective in the field were his army's superlative engineering abilities and the legendary speed with which he maneuvered his troops (Caesar's army sometimes marched as many as 40 miles a day). His army was made of 40,000 infantry and many cavaliers, with some specialized units, such as engineers. He records in his Commentaries on the Gallic Wars that during the siege of one Gallic city built on a very steep and high plateau, his engineers were able to tunnel through solid rock and find the source of the spring that the town was drawing its water supply from, and divert it to the use of the army. The town, cut off from their water supply, capitulated at once.

Honours

Was voted the title Divus, or "god," after his death.

During his life, he received many honours, including titles such as Pater Patriae (Father of the Fatherland), Pontifex Maximus (Highest Priest), and Dictator. The many titles bestowed on him by the Senate are sometimes cited as a cause of his assassination, as it seemed inappropriate to many contemporaries for a mortal man to be awarded so many honours.

As a young man he was awarded the Corona Civica (civic crown) for valor while fighting in Asia minor.

Perhaps the most significant title he carried was his name from birth: Caesar. This name would be awarded to every Roman emperor, and it became a signal of great power and authority far beyond the bounds of the empire. The title became the German Kaiser and Slavic Tsar/Czar. The last tsar in nominal power was Simeon II of Bulgaria whose reign ended in 1946; for two thousand years after Julius Caesar's assassination, there was at least one head of state bearing his name.

Note, however, that Caesar was an ordinary name of no more importance than other cognomen like Cicero and Brutus. It did not become an Imperial title until well after Julius Caesar's death.