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Caesar: Roman Empire
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Caesar was a general, a statesman, a legislator, an orator, an historian, and a mathematician who was said to have a photographic memory. Caesar never lost a war, improved the calendar, created the first political news sheet, Acta Diurna.He ... drafted the enduring Roman Law against extortion.
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Even without 24-hour news and an international community watching his every move, Caesar was acutely aware of the need to win over public opinion. Each winter he produced an account of the year's campaign, designed to be read aloud and to thrill an audience of Romans. From the beginning, these were acknowledged as one of the highest expressions of the Latin language.
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Two ancient biographies of Caesar survive: one by the Greek moralist Plutarch in his Lives and the other by the Roman courtier and bureaucrat Suetonius in his The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Caesar speaks for himself in Commentaries on the Gallic War and Commentaries on the Civil Wars. For a vivid account of the politics of the period, with Caesar playing a major role, nothing surpasses the letters of Cicero.
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When his time as the governor of Gallia was almost finished, Caesar thought he should return to Rome as soon as possible, or his enemies in the Senate, a group of other important Roman men, would stop him. He and his army entered Rome and took power. This caused a civil war, but in the end Julius Caesar won and became almost a king, a dictator.
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Julius Caesar was a great general who won many important battles. His fame within the Roman Empire made him very powerful and he had many influential friends in the Senate. He used this to gain power for himself, which led to him having many enemies.
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Caesar is the first encounter for students with Latin, Caesar is the scene of the first battlefield, and Caesar is generally the scene of the Great Discouragement. This is unfortunate, but can be remedied by reading Caesar after the student has read simpler texts, like Florus' very easy abridgment of Roman history, some of the short family-style letters of Cicero, and then going into Caesar as a special military style of writing, as well as an introduction into that ancient occupation which is still firmly with us --- the military craft and Warfare.
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