i dint know there was a grave for him. always assumed lost to history
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wtf did he do to you?
He also managed to strip the power from wealthy senators in Rome to give the common people better representation; even if it was only in principal rather than installed/formalized in a new system of government. He was a misguided man by the time he was murdered, but still a popular man of the people for this reason. His disposition with the corrupt, self-serving senators legitimized his right to rule for the plebeians that were ignored by the senate for so long.
Why are you dick riding a guy who died more than ten years ago
Worth remembering that most of what we know of Caesar comes directly from Caesar. He is the man that destroyed and ended the republic for no real reason other than power.
Imo Pompeii is far more deserving of the praise that Caesar receives.
This statement is not true.
Cicero and Cato the Younger lived during Caesar's time. Cicero's speeches and texts are very well known and telling on Caesar.
The same the Democrats do in the US. Half measures for the people at home and warcrimes for the imperium abroad.
There were 85 dictators before him. I'm not kidding.
The Republic's government was failing for a long time. The generals in the republic simply had too much power. When rebels rose in the Sertorian War the senate couldn't do anything for years until Pompey finally ended it, had highlighting the power of the generals over the senate. This wasn't unknown in the republic. It's the reason why the first triumvirate was able to form. The republic had too little checks and balances.
Not dictatorship per se, but (in a sense even as general doing his own thing) he did bring forward proper imperialism like we think of it today.
(Ups, sry! How tf did I end up in such an old thread, how far beneath Moria did I doomscroll??)
He murdered up to 60% of Gaul's total population
Yeah, but like, OP wasn't there for that.
Yeah but if he hadn't there would be more French people
You're thinking of Marc Antony
The Latino singer?
This is the average exchange in The Sopranos lmao
I long for the days when we had a powerful emperor and the Gauls were the bad guys.
I honestly feel like the Gauls were the good guys all along.
There's actually a really good documentary series about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix
Damn Talos Worshipping Stormcloaks. The Empire was nice and lazy before they started leaving offerings for Talos on his grave.
Some people really enjoy their salad.
spoiler
Yes, I know it wasn't THAT Cesar who invented the Cesar salad.
Why is his grave so... tall? Is it because he turns over in his grave every time someone refers to him as "See-zer"?
(His name was pronounced "Kie-sar" or something like that back in the day. C was pronounced like K. AE was pronounced like "Eye." SAR was pronounced like "star" but without the T. Not quite like Kaiser though.)
(When I played Fallout: New Vegas and the Legion troops would say "Awe, true to Caesar" the way they do, I wondered why they said what they said, how they said it, and looked it up... apparently that was an attempt to be historically accurate. Since the game takes place in the future, half of them actually do say "See-zer." The Caesar character doesn't care how his followers pronounce his name. I'm not sure all the Caesars IRL would have, but the more sadistic ones? Oh yeah, they'd have your ass up on a cross for getting their name wrong. They did worse for less.)


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