What Ceasar interest you the most?

Question

It doesn't have to be the best or the worst one. Caligula interest me cause he was wacky crazy. I like studying about the insanity of him and the crazy things he did. I would say Nero is my second pick for most interesting Ceasar.

Answer 1

You have chosen the more intriguing Caesars to be sure
(you might enjoy reading Suetonius "The Twelve Caesars"
or Michael Grant's "Sick Caesar's"), but they could not have held the power to be "wacky" without Octavian (Caesar Augustus). I like this guy because he made the transition from the "Republic" of Rome with the senators calling the shots (an "oligarchy") to the "Empire" with an absolute power individual, the emperor, making all the choices including life or death. As I recall he ruled from ~27 BC to his death in 14 AD (when Jesus was about 19 years old). Anyone who ruled most of the Mediterranean world when Jesus was a kid and teenager should be interesting no matter what your personal religious beliefs may be. I can't think of another Caesar who survived to rule for over forty years. Nero and Caligula did not die as old men in their sleep, and few Caesars would survive without violence cutting short their rule.
Another little known and misunderstood Caesar was Julian the Apostate ~ 361-363 AD or CE. He tried to bring Rome back from Christian extremism to a tolerant empire which allowed religious freedom. He was a neo-Platonic scholar,
a real thinking man as was the emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius in the 160-180 AD time slot. Unfortunately, Julian's tenure was cut short by war. At least he died in battle and was not killed by his own guards.

Answer 2

Hello,

Caligula and Nero are always the most popular and get everyone wide awake in history class when they are the topics for the lectures. We all love villains!

I like Julius Caesar since he wrote his own history books on the Gaelic and Roman civil wars. Yes he was arrogant. unambitious, perhaps greedy for power, position and wealth but unlike so many other leaders he was always for front right in the battle, put his own life on the line but never asked anyone, especially his men to do anything he would not do himself.

Cheers,

Michael

Answer 3

If you haven't read the books/ seen the tv series then I highly recommend I Claudius if you want to dicover more about Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius.

Because of this (he is the 'hero' of the books!) I am intrigued by Claudius. How did a man who seemed so physically incapable of rule, and so very far away from power in terms of his birth, end up as emperor. And why was he such a poor judge of women when it came to selecting wives??

In fact I find Augustus' wife Livia more interesting. Was she really as evil as she is portrayed? How did she get Augustus to marry her when she was already married, and in fact pregnant with her husbands child? Did she really murder all those people to get her own son to power?

Its better than any soap opera!!

Answer 4

The salad one.






g-day!

Answer 5

ambitious!! he is GREAT king in my eyes!!!