Gaius Julius Caesar. Cicero. The Greatest Figures of the Roman Republic.

 

Gaius Julius Caesar. The brilliant life of Caesar is recorded in history today as a model of greatness in every aspect of fate. Caesar was the pinnacle of power, becoming a model of autocratic rule for centuries. He built a... great Empire, revolutionarily transforming the Roman state. Even the tragic death of this genius of power, conqueror of women and victor over men, appears as a logical and splendid conclusion to his life. Cicero. We are more closely and intimately acquainted with Marcus Tullius Cicero, the greatest Roman orator and writer, than with any other eminent figures of antiquity. While a significant majority of the first pass by our view with more or less clear profiles, facing us only from the side on which the jealous light of history has shone, we are able to restore the image of Cicero in all its brightness and completeness as the living person he truly was in the eyes of his contemporaries and his own.