Caesar’s seven-year Gaul campaign ended triumphantly in 51 B.C. He knew he needed a great military victory to win lasting glory beyond politics, so he set out to conquer the long-defiant Gauls-Celts who lived in modern-day France. But when he led his troops across the Rubicon River in defiance of the Roman Senate, he distinguished himself for the ages and set Rome on a path of transformation from republic to empire.Ĭaesar made the political prime time at around age 40 by forging the First Triumvirate with Pompey the Great, noted general and statesman, and Marcus Licinius Crassus, one of Rome’s richest men. “Beware the Ides of March.Few Romans would have chosen young Julius Caesar (ca 100–44 B.C.) as the man most likely to succeed on a grand scale and dominate their world.“Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”.“Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once.”.“No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.”įamous quotes from William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.“If you must break the law, do so to seize power: In all other cases observe it.”.
“Men willingly believe what they wish.”.“I came, I saw, I conquered.” Or “ Veni, Vidi, Vici,” in Latin.It’s currently housed at Musée Départmental de l’Arles Antique. But this bust is thought to resemble the leader as he really looked, showing a receding hairline and wrinkles developing on his forehead. Since most visual representations of Caesar were made after his death, historians say they tend to be idealized versions of him. If so, it would be the only surviving statue made of the emperor while he was alive.
Some historians and archeologists believe a bust pulled from the Rhône River in France in 2007 is actually of Julius Caesar.
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The Rhône River in France / saiko3p/ iStock via Getty Images Plus William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar left out a key player in Julius Caesar’s assassination. But we know Caesar's mother lived well into his adulthood, and some historians believe she may have even outlived him, so it's unlikely she underwent a C-section and survived. The Suda mistakenly says Caesar’s mother, Aurelia Cotta, died during childbirth. The law also stated that dying pregnant women must undergo a C-section to attempt to save the life of the baby. For centuries, there was a law that required C-sections be performed under certain circumstances, which was instated during the reign of Numa Pompilius, who ruled from 715–673 BCE, long before Caesar.Īccording to the law, if a woman died while pregnant, she had to undergo a C-section, because it was against Roman beliefs to bury a mother with her baby in her womb. First, C-sections were already performed in Rome at the time. The story, however, is highly unlikely for several reasons. For when his mother died in the ninth month, they cut her open, took him out, and named him thus for in the Roman tongue dissection is called ‘Caesar.’" "The emperors of the Romans receive this name from Julius Caesar, who was not born. A 10th-century Byzantine-Greek historical encyclopedia called may be the source of the confusion, since it claims C-sections got their name from Caesar himself, stating: An engraving of Julius Caesar from 1860 / GeorgiosArt/ iStock via Getty Images Plusįor centuries, it was believed Julius Caesar was the first baby born via Cesarean section, but that's likely far from the truth.
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