History 18 - Section K
Essay Number # 1 “Caivus Ivlivs Caesaris: Conqueror, Politician, Leader.”
“I have been told that the soldiers will refuse to obey orders to advance,” the eagle-eyed commander began, his soldiers still trembling in fear of the enemy. “Such a statement leaves me completely unmoved. I know that in all cases where an army has failed to obey its general, this has happened because of some misfortune brought on by the general’s incompetence or else because some crime of the general’s has been discovered and he has been convicted of avarice. In my own case you can look at my whole life as evidence of my integrity and you can recall the Helvetian campaign for evidence of my fortune in war.”
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Caesar ruled without regard to the Senate, passing laws in an effort to consolidate and increase his personal power. After passing many Populare-aligned laws, he was assassinated in March 15, 44 B.C. by senators.
Even in death, Caivus Ivlivs Caesaris still triumphed in his goal to be remembered. Not only as someone who stood for the common man, fighting alongside him, but as a selfless and determined individual who can only be killed by betrayal & a stab from the back.
Robert Mari Q. Ibay
132002
Word Count: 2000 (Excluding Footnotes, Name, ID Number)
Primary Source
Julius Caesar, Commentariorvm De Bello Gallico (London and New York: Clarendon Press, 1900).
Julius Caesar, The Civil Wars, trans. A. G. Peskett (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1914).
Julius Caesar, War Commentaries of Caesar, trans. Rex Warner (New York: The New American Library, 1960).
Plutarch, Plutarch’s Lives of Illustrious Men (Cuneo Press Inc. 1997)
Secondary Source
Arno Borst, The Ordering of Time, trans. Andrew Winnard (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press).
Joshua J. Mark 2011, Ancient History Encyclopaedia, viewed 22 July 2014,
Essay Number # 1 “Caivus Ivlivs Caesaris: Conqueror, Politician, Leader.”
“I have been told that the soldiers will refuse to obey orders to advance,” the eagle-eyed commander began, his soldiers still trembling in fear of the enemy. “Such a statement leaves me completely unmoved. I know that in all cases where an army has failed to obey its general, this has happened because of some misfortune brought on by the general’s incompetence or else because some crime of the general’s has been discovered and he has been convicted of avarice. In my own case you can look at my whole life as evidence of my integrity and you can recall the Helvetian campaign for evidence of my fortune in war.”
Ambitious, daring, and confident: …show more content…
Caesar ruled without regard to the Senate, passing laws in an effort to consolidate and increase his personal power. After passing many Populare-aligned laws, he was assassinated in March 15, 44 B.C. by senators.
Even in death, Caivus Ivlivs Caesaris still triumphed in his goal to be remembered. Not only as someone who stood for the common man, fighting alongside him, but as a selfless and determined individual who can only be killed by betrayal & a stab from the back.
Robert Mari Q. Ibay
132002
Word Count: 2000 (Excluding Footnotes, Name, ID Number)
Primary Source
Julius Caesar, Commentariorvm De Bello Gallico (London and New York: Clarendon Press, 1900).
Julius Caesar, The Civil Wars, trans. A. G. Peskett (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1914).
Julius Caesar, War Commentaries of Caesar, trans. Rex Warner (New York: The New American Library, 1960).
Plutarch, Plutarch’s Lives of Illustrious Men (Cuneo Press Inc. 1997)
Secondary Source
Arno Borst, The Ordering of Time, trans. Andrew Winnard (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press).
Joshua J. Mark 2011, Ancient History Encyclopaedia, viewed 22 July 2014,