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Great Caesar’s ghost!

i dint know there was a grave for him. always assumed lost to history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Caesar

The answer is it might be cesars grave it could also be the altar or something entirely unrelated in the correct-ish area.

I long for the days when we had a powerful emperor and the Gauls were the bad guys.

How come there's no salad?

wtf did he do to you?

his salad is gross

You're thinking of Marc Antony

I honestly feel like the Gauls were the good guys all along.

The Latino singer?

Hey cool a place I’ve been

There's actually a really good documentary series about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix

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.

He murdered up to 60% of Gaul's total population

Why are you dick riding a guy who died more than ten years ago

Yeah, but like, OP wasn't there for that.

Why can't you just admit that Rome is stronger than ever thanks to Caesar? You have Caesar Derangement Syndrome.

This is the average exchange in The Sopranos lmao

There were 85 dictators before him. I'm not kidding.

How is it better to have just one?

Missed that part of your comment, sorry for that

Genocidal and a tyrant

Leave a knife

Yeah but if he hadn't there would be more French people

The same the Democrats do in the US. Half measures for the people at home and warcrimes for the imperium abroad.

Damn Talos Worshipping Stormcloaks. The Empire was nice and lazy before they started leaving offerings for Talos on his grave.

I would argue that without Caesar, there wouldn't be any French people.

Sure didn't, but I'm sure he didn't really plan on getting murdered either. Maybe he had a plan to reinstall a democracy after his rule. Though I doubt it.

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.

I said 'most' as Caesar created a shitload of propaganda about himself. Obviously, an adept student would look deeper than that, as you have.

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.

Dictatorship was a tool of the republic. It's where the term came from. In Rome you have to differentiate a tyrant from a dictator. Just look at Cincinnatus.

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??)