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How I imagine his personality based on the story about how Caesar trolled pirates who held him for ransom, I bet Caesar would get a kick out of this meme.
But first he would have to learn meme culture . Like i have to learb who caesar is can someone give a tldr i would love to know.
Julius Caesar was a Roman emperor who is famous for being betrayed by his council (and possibly son depending how much your read into suetonius's 12 Caesars) and stabbed in the back by like 20 people at the same time. the salad pictured is called a Caesar salad, but it wasnt invented by Julius Caesar it's just commonly attributed to him in meme culture as a joke.
Thank you.
The two answers here are pretty bad, so here's my take as a history nerd.
Gaius Julius Caesar was a highly ambitious Roman politician who through very clever political manoeuvering and incredible military success (considered a military genius) forged a path to almost complete power after winning the civil war and beating the opposing senators, spearheaded by Pompey and Cato. After becoming dictator for life, he was assassinated on the ides of March (the 15th) in 44BC by a group of opposing senators, which included his adopted son Brutus (daughter of his long time lover Cornelia). After the assassination Rome again fell into civil war, with Gaius Julius Octavianus eventually becoming the first Roman emperor, now usually known as emperor Augustus.
Caesar was never an emperor, but the word emperor in many languages is directly based on Caesars name. For example: czar in Russian, kaiser in German and keizer in Dutch.
In 1st Century BC, Caesar was the most famous Roman Emperor whose authority grew to be the foremost power in all of Europe, Middle East, and Africa. His legionnaires were military forces that went on foot across deserts and mountains, sometimes laying roads along the way, which spread Latin to the entire Western World which later laid the foundation for French, English, Spanish, and other language adaptations. Because of him, phrases such as "All Roads Lead to Rome" and "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" exist.
The Roman Senators and leaders in multiple branches of Government realized that Caesar's power had become something like that of a King, which directly opposed the ideology of Roman Democracy, so three of his good friends took him out back and murdered him. If you trust the words of 16th century poets, then they stabbed Julius exactly 37 times.
His lineage continued to rule Rome for about a century, meaning the aforementioned assassination failed completely.
He didn't die of 37 stabs ? Like what ?
He supposedly did die from that. He was cremated so nobody actually knows for certain aside from the romanticized writings. He was deified after death, so it's likely that tons of stuff we know about the events are twisted.
I'm saying the assassination failed because even after he died his lineage took power. They wanted to prevent a monarchy.
Sorry but what is a lineage ?
Your parents, your self, and your offspring are all part of a lineage. It's a family line.
So legacy ?
That works in the context I used it in, but Legacy is only in the forward direction. You can be your father's legacy but he cannot be yours. Lineage describes all of the members of the family line.
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