Caesar
Caesar was one of the great Roman leaders studied throughout history today known for his political and military strategies. Betrayed by the men he trusted the most in the Roman Empire, because they believed he was a selfish dictator and that it would be better for Rome if he was taken out of power.
Gaius Julius Caesar a Roman public figure who led the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire through great military campaigns and the total destruction of people within Rome who became his enemy. Later in his political life he used his power the people had given him to strengthen his own authority through laws that weakened many others political power. In doing so he slowly began to lose the trust of the people that supported him and this began leading his supporters to plot their betrayal eventually leading to Caesars assassination at the hands of his own Senate and those closest to him who he trusted like family such as Brutus. The accounts of Caesars assassination are few seeing as there was no actual record of the event other than the stories of those who were in the senate described. The first account of his assassination written by Nicolaus of Damascus who heard about the story of the assassination from one of the men in the Senate during the time. In this article it heavily supports the fact that Caesar was indeed a dictator. Starting with the name of the story Death of a Dictator, where the author begins to go into the plan and a very detailed account of the murder. “Everyone wanted to seem to have had some part in the murder, and there was not one of them who failed to strike his body as it lay there, until, wounded thirty-five times, he breathed his last." This is a brutal way to describe the murder of Caesar seeing as the author was not actually there. The way it is told however describes the men “…doing battle against him”. This was a man unarmed with no security and already stabbed once who was being attacked by many men over and over until everyone was able to get a cut in. There was obvious hate for Caesar if the assassination had to be this brutal. Instead of simply killing him they wanted to take out their anger on the man that stood over them as a declared dictator. Described as one of the most accurate accounts on the death of Caesar written by his biographer Gaius Tranquillus who used the words of eyewitnesses and imperial documents.to write his view of the story. This story has a strong bias towards Caesar being a tyrant dictator that the people did not support hoping to break free of his tyranny they called for the Senate to defend them. ”…secretly and openly rebelled at his tyranny and cried out for defenders of their liberty” This was a call for help from the commoners who opposed Caesars rule as well as the Senate who met in secret to plot their rulers downfall. Caesar had many warnings and prophecies leading up to his death in the senate, and he strongly believed in these sign but was led to his death by some of his own friends tricking him into thinking that these omens were false and he could not be harmed. Even those who knew of the plot to assassinate Caesar that were …show more content…
This statement is probably the best to describe Caesar in all of mentions in history, because its true the people of that time thought Caesar was a great leader and like every great leader he had the people that hated him and the people who only mentioned his cons. However in all of these sources it seems everyone does change their mind about Caesar. It seems that the power he acquired and kept giving himself changed him so naturally it changed the way the people saw him. History will probably always describe Caesar as one of the leaders who had good intentions but just began to get lost in the power he was gaining. Just as many leaders before him and many leaders after him history who have been left labeled as
Caesar was one of the great Roman leaders studied throughout history today known for his political and military strategies. Betrayed by the men he trusted the most in the Roman Empire, because they believed he was a selfish dictator and that it would be better for Rome if he was taken out of power.
Gaius Julius Caesar a Roman public figure who led the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire through great military campaigns and the total destruction of people within Rome who became his enemy. Later in his political life he used his power the people had given him to strengthen his own authority through laws that weakened many others political power. In doing so he slowly began to lose the trust of the people that supported him and this began leading his supporters to plot their betrayal eventually leading to Caesars assassination at the hands of his own Senate and those closest to him who he trusted like family such as Brutus. The accounts of Caesars assassination are few seeing as there was no actual record of the event other than the stories of those who were in the senate described. The first account of his assassination written by Nicolaus of Damascus who heard about the story of the assassination from one of the men in the Senate during the time. In this article it heavily supports the fact that Caesar was indeed a dictator. Starting with the name of the story Death of a Dictator, where the author begins to go into the plan and a very detailed account of the murder. “Everyone wanted to seem to have had some part in the murder, and there was not one of them who failed to strike his body as it lay there, until, wounded thirty-five times, he breathed his last." This is a brutal way to describe the murder of Caesar seeing as the author was not actually there. The way it is told however describes the men “…doing battle against him”. This was a man unarmed with no security and already stabbed once who was being attacked by many men over and over until everyone was able to get a cut in. There was obvious hate for Caesar if the assassination had to be this brutal. Instead of simply killing him they wanted to take out their anger on the man that stood over them as a declared dictator. Described as one of the most accurate accounts on the death of Caesar written by his biographer Gaius Tranquillus who used the words of eyewitnesses and imperial documents.to write his view of the story. This story has a strong bias towards Caesar being a tyrant dictator that the people did not support hoping to break free of his tyranny they called for the Senate to defend them. ”…secretly and openly rebelled at his tyranny and cried out for defenders of their liberty” This was a call for help from the commoners who opposed Caesars rule as well as the Senate who met in secret to plot their rulers downfall. Caesar had many warnings and prophecies leading up to his death in the senate, and he strongly believed in these sign but was led to his death by some of his own friends tricking him into thinking that these omens were false and he could not be harmed. Even those who knew of the plot to assassinate Caesar that were …show more content…
This statement is probably the best to describe Caesar in all of mentions in history, because its true the people of that time thought Caesar was a great leader and like every great leader he had the people that hated him and the people who only mentioned his cons. However in all of these sources it seems everyone does change their mind about Caesar. It seems that the power he acquired and kept giving himself changed him so naturally it changed the way the people saw him. History will probably always describe Caesar as one of the leaders who had good intentions but just began to get lost in the power he was gaining. Just as many leaders before him and many leaders after him history who have been left labeled as