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  • Essay / How Dictator Julius Caesar Misunderstood - 1741

    I was born on July 13, 100 BC. My father had only moderate political success, reaching the praetorship but not the consulate. My mother came from a plebeian family and my family could boast of a long, even too distinguished, history. They were a patrician family on my father's side and, therefore, one of the founders of Rome and were entitled to certain traditional privileges and functions. I received the classical and rhetorical education of a young Roman in Rome and Rhodes. I was considered one of the most cultured and learned Romans by an expert like Cicero himself. “I followed the traditional Roman practice of carrying out certain pursuits in order to attract political attention” (“Gaius” Encyclopedia). “Experience is the teacher of all things” (Marc). I said this because I believe that to have the greatest success possible, you have to be well educated in this subject and you have to already have some experience to know what it looks like and to be able to improve next time. around. Over the next few years, I became one of the leading political and social figures in Rome. Cultivated, charming, handsome and vain of my appearance, I made people talk about my loves in Roman society. “I recognized the urban proletariat as one of the main sources of political power and cultivated this group assiduously” (“Gaius” Encyclopedia). Even while I conquered