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JULIUS CEASAR
       
Adrian Pena
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Bibliography :
(1)     "Julius Caesar" Encyclopedia Britannica (1990), Volume C,
(2)     "Caesar, Julius" Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia   version 4 Volume C (1994).
(3) " Julius Caesar" Bradford, Ernie (1990),

 

I read over 270 pages of information from 4 different books.

Julius Caesar was a strong leader for the Romans who changed the course

of the history of the Greco - Roman world decisively and irreversibly.

With his strength and courage he created a strong empire .   What

happened during his early political career?   How did he become such a

strong dictator of the Roman Empire?   What events led up to the making

of the first triumvirate?   How did he rise over the other two in the

triumvirate and why did he choose to take over?   What happened during

his reign as dictator of Rome?   What events led up to the assassination

of Caesar?   What happened after he was killed? Caesar was a major part

of the Roman Empire because of his strength and his strong war

strategies. (3     102-190)

Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose

dictatorship was pivotal in Rome's transition from republic to empire.   When

he was young, Caesar lived through one of the most horrifying decades in the

history of the city of Rome.   The city was assaulted twice and captured by

Roman armies, first in 87 BC by the leaders of the populares, his uncle

Marius and Cinna;   Cinna was killed the year that Caesar had married

Cinna's   daughter Cornelia.   The second attack upon the city was carried our

by Marius' enemy Sulla, leader of the optimates, in 82 BC on the latter's

return from the East.   On each occasion the massacre of political

opponents was followed by the confiscation of their property.   The

proscriptions of Sulla, which preceded the reactionary political

legislation enacted during his dictatorship left a...