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Julius Caesar: The Faults Behind the Myth

Last March marked the anniversary of Julius Caesar's assassination over 2,000 years ago, and after two millennia, his legendary achievements still linger in today's consciousness just as they have for centuries. He was so revered that in Dante's Inferno, his conspirators shared the lowest circle of hell with Judas Iscariot, labeling them the worst sinners in history. Even Alexander Hamilton claimed, “The greatest man who ever lived was Julius Caesar.” Could he really have been that great?

Early signs of his personality

Caesar was born in the slums of Rome even though he traced his lineage to the city's noble forbears and even claimed to be a descendant of the goddess Venus. Through his brilliance, tenacity, and perpetual willingness to become overwhelmed with debt, he was able to climb the political ladder, called the cursus honorum, and reach the pinnacle of power.

But the faults lingering beneath Caesar's charismatic veneer were evident very early in his life. After he was captured by pirates, ransomed, and released, he sought revenge, with good reason. He seized the pirates and turned to the Roman provincial governor to mete out justice. When he was unhappy with their sentence of slavery, he defiantly had them all crucified. Not long after, he was once again dissatisfied, this time with Rome's reaction to a threat posed by the belligerent King Mithridates. Instead of coordinating with Roman officials or even acquiring permission, he insubordinately led troops against the Mithridatic allies.