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Gaius Julius Caesar, also known as Julius Caesar, was a Roman dictator and general. He was born on July 12th, 100 BCE in Rome, Italy. He is supposedly related to the Trojan Prince Aeneas, a Greek Hero and Mythical God. He was also the nephew of the famous Roma general, Marius. After his Uncle’s death, Sulla, his uncle’s enemy, was going to seize Rome by force. Caesar’s life was in jeopardy. In 67 BCE Caesar launched a successful political and military career. Caesar studied public speaking in…

Renowned classicist Mary Beard, a professor at Cambridge University, has spent much of the last half century studying the literature produced by the Romans and the thousands of books and papers that have been written about them. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome is an authoritative exploration of how a small, unremarkable and unknown village became such a central power on three continents in such a short period of time. The beginning of the worlds most renowned empire is typically lost within…

friend of Julius Caesar. After he was adopted by his uncle, he changed his name to Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus, but eventually went back to using Marcus Junius Brutus. Brutus was a late Roman Republican and was a senator of Rome. Butus was important to Rome’s history because he was a senator of the Roman Empire and was Julius Caesar's assassin. Marcus Tullius Cicero was born January 3, 106 BC in Arpinum, Rome and was assassinated on December 7, 43 BC in Formia, Italy. Cicero was a…

The Republican government in Rome collapsed in the year of 44-27 B.C. Many events caused this event to occur in Roman history, the rise of private armies and the creation of the first Triumvirate could have possibly both contributed to the collapse of the Roman Republic. However, Julius Caesar is mostly to blame for the fall of the republican government in Rome. Julius Caesar did many good deeds during his ruling in Rome prior to the collapse of Rome. People referred to Caesar as a noble man and…

start off, when someone thinks of power, they think of a person who controls someone of something. Julius Caesar may have been the person to have the most of that power in all time. Julius Caesar, a well-known Roman dictator, impacted the destiny of the nation that he lead by expanding the Roman Empire. Author’s can use various genres of literature as a proactiv tool in educating people in many ways. Various genres of literature can be used a proactive tool in learning in many ways including…

an astute general, and a strong dictator of the Roman Republic. He was born on July 17th, 100 BC and was assassinated on March 15th, 44 BC. Caesar’s rise to power was difficult, but in 73 BC he was made Pontiff in Rome. He gained a lot of popularity because of this and also because he sided with those powers outside the circle of nobles, who at that time governed the Roman senate. He also attained popularity with the Gauls by supporting them for Roman citizenship, eventually becoming the…

was culturally diverse, there was a widespread use of Roman language which included Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian. Many religions were practiced and respected among the people, who were also paying roman taxes. The romans left behind aqueducts , western alphabet and calendars among many things. As their empire grew so did their problems, which eventually led too their downfall. There are several reasons as to why the Roman Empire fell apart , all in which was correlated to…

River in central Italy it grew until it comprised of a large portion of today’s Europe including Britain, parts of Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean islands. The Romans are the reason why the Romance languages are so widespread such as Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese which are all derived from Latin, and created the modern calendar and Western alphabet. They also are the reason Christianity has become one of the world’s most popular religions. The City of Rome was founded in 753 B.C.…

Julius Caesar is one of the most well-known Roman leaders of all time. He was admired both for his bravery and the concern he showed for his people, especially the poor. Although his reign was before Christ, many modern people are familiar with him from the many biographies that have been written about him by well-known authors, and probably most famously, Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar”. Gaius Julius Caesar was born in July 100 BC to an aristocratic family. When he was 15 years old, his…

Spectacles in the Roman Empire The spectacles were an important tool for social cohesion in the Roman Empire. These spectacles started to fill the city of Rome even before the Empire began to increase its power throughout other lands. What started as something with an entire religious background, soon would become only a political tool that would serve politicians to control people and make them change their opinions on the serious issues that their government or Empire were living at that time…