Master: Alessandro Serpi
The famous dictator (dictator perpetuo) who laid the foundations for the birth of the Roman empire. One of the most important and influential figures in history whose exploits have inspired hundreds of rulers and leaders.
Caesar was a military leader, politician, poet, orator, writer and had historical and philosophical interests. Her epicurean upbringing, combined with a strong ambition, made her the most forward-thinking person of her era. Her intellectual vivacity and her military ingenuity made her carry out great but also terrible feats.
Caesar was a military leader, politician, poet, orator, writer and had historical and philosophical interests. Her epicurean upbringing, combined with a strong ambition, made her the most forward-thinking person of her era. Her intellectual vivacity and her military ingenuity made her carry out great but also terrible feats.
The campaign in Gaul gave her great glory and made her very popular among the legions, however the price of that conflict was enormous; Caesar's hands got dirty with the blood of hundreds of thousands of people... but she never cared. Caesar has always seen those atrocities with a cold, detached eye, but she had to pay the price for it at the end of the campaign.
The senators in Rome were afraid of her strength and her connection with the legions. The stories of her crimes strengthened the senatorial opposition and, eventually, it led to civil war. A war that saw Caesar employ ingenuity, clemency and cunning to be able to emerge victorious.
Caesar came to power and became the most powerful person in the whole Mediterranean; of all Rome. She cultivated ambitions such as the conquest of Germany and the Parthians and in the meantime she was accused of wanting to become king.
Caesar's true plans in this regard are not known. Some argue that she wanted to be king, others say no. What is known is that her life met a tragic end.
Brutus, the stoic pacifist with a past as a usurer, and Cassius, the representative of a discontented aristocracy, plotted the conspiracy in the Ides of March. Both allies and enemies of Caesar took part in this conspiracy; all people who had been treated as friends, who had been forgiven and who had enjoyed the gifts given by the dictator. By killing her, however, they did not realize that they had eliminated the most lucid and far-sighted exponent of that city.
"The best wife for husbands and the best husband for wives" (as the Romans used to say). A figure of divine beauty who had several lovers both men and women, both Romans and not.
Her sword is the legendary Crocea Mors, also known by the name of Excalibur (the sword of King Arthur Pendragon).
She fought twice as many battles as the legendary Alexander the Great and made her name a synonym for power. Gaius Julius Caesar was a victim of traditional castes, but she was a star for remote peoples present in the multiethnic empire that was being created.
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