Questions tagged [julius-caesar]
Questions relating to the Roman politician and general Gaius Julius Caesar
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Did Caesar comment on the intellectual curiosity of the Gauls?
On p.147 of Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations, he writes:
The trait of intellectual curiosity which Julius Caesar detected in the Gauls has remained throughout the ages a distinctive character of ...
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Is this apparent story about how Julius Caesar selected soldiers true?
I heard a suggestion that Caesar would select the soldiers he wanted by leading them, thirsty, to a river and seeing who would simply plunge in to take a drink vs. who would first get a cup and fill ...
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With money we will get men, said Cæsar, and with men we will get money
In Notes on Virginia, Jefferson wrote:
With money we will get men, said Cæsar, and with men we will get money.
I'm interested in where this was sourced. I don't expect that Jefferson was quoting or ...
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How were Ceasar's troops supplied with food during the Siege of Alexandria?
During the Siege of Alexandria, Julius Ceasar and a few thousand troops were stuck in the royal quarter of Alexandria for several months, with a local army surrounding them.
Did the royal quarter have ...
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Did Julius Caesar reduce the number of slaves?
In the following article, it is mentioned that Caesar reduced the number of slaves after becoming the dictator. However, other articles only mention the slaves of Gaul. So my question is, is the ...
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Which rulers, apart from Julius Caesar, used the Caesar cipher?
The Caesar cipher, apparently devised by Julius Caesar to communicate with Cicero in wartime, consists of replacing each letter in the original message with the letter three places after in the ...
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How important was the war against Vercingetorix to the Romans?
I have recently been watching Netflix documentary on Rome and Julius Caesar and of course his most famous battle in Gaul.
My question is how big of an issue was Vercingetorix rebellion for the Romans?
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Did Julius Caesar ban low-birth people wearing pearls?
I encountered this
"in I century B.C., during the Julius Caesar consulship, it was promulgated a law that prohibited the theirs [sic] use by the lower classes" RomeAndArt
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Why doesn't Eusebius of Caesarea mention Julian calendar in his Chronicle?
Why doesn't Eusebius of Caesarea even mention the Julian calendar in his Chronicle? Chronicle by Eusebius of Caesarea covers period till A.D. 325. Armenian translation of Chronicle ends with the ...
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How did the civil calendar evolve?
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When did the lunar-inspired subdivisions of months - the kalends, nones, and ides - and the system of counting down to them, fall into disuse, to be replaced with the modern system of ...
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Why did Mark Antony not report Trebonius’ plot to kill Julius Caesar?
Trebonius approached Mark Antony at Narbo and asked him to join a plot to kill Caesar, I don’t understand why one of Caesar’s most loyal men, Antony, wouldn’t report the plot. Considering Trebonius ...
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How did the Druids learn the Greek language by the time of Caesar's campaign in Gaul?
In Latin class, we are translating parts of Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War. One thing that struck me as odd is how Caesar describes the customs of the Gauls, especially in Book 6, where he ...
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Why didn't Caesar move against Sextus Pompey immediately after Munda?
I am very familiar with the story of the civil war and the various players in it. I have read the sources from Livy, Suetonius, to more modern authors but none has ever answered why Caesar did not ...
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What do these terms in Caesar's Gallic Wars mean?
In his Comentarii de bello Gallico, Caesar writes this on first page:
The Belgae rises from the extreme frontier of Gaul, extend to the lower part of the river Rhine; and look toward the north ...
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How tall was Brutus?
Brutus was an important figure in the Roman Empire and also played a large role in Shakespeare's iconic work, Julius Caesar. After researching many different sources, I have yet to identify the height ...
