caesar

"I came, I saw, I conquered!" These words express the incredibly strong will and no-nonsense attitude of one of history's most famous man. Born into a patrician family Julius Caesar was a courageous man, with very good social skills among the people. But most of all, he was a gambler who knew how to calculate his odds. Willing to risk everything he had, including his life on a chance to win big in the game …

…the founding of the Republic. Since Julius Caesar was a dictator, he alienated those citizens with strong traditional republican views. On the other hand, Caesar was an extremely popular man, especially amongst the army, the people, and his veterans. It is a curious twist of Roman psychology (not altogether absent in our own society) that the people probably were glad that Caesar was safely dead but wanted to honor and grieve for their fallen hero!