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Article: According to the biographers.(Julius Caesar according to Plutarch and Suetonius)(Biography)
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- Calliope
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- December 1, 2006
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Many people know Julius Caesar as one of Rome's greatest generals. Many people also know him from statues carved in his likeness. Narrow cheeks, furrowed brow, and stern gaze are the trademark features of this Roman who defeated all his enemies and paved the way for the Roman Empire. But statues and images do not give us the full story. Eager yet fearful, ambitious but somewhat cautious, once a prisoner and only later a conqueror, Caesar, like us, was a living, breathing person. In order to understand the real Caesar, that is, in order to bring him to life, historians turn their gaze away from marble statues and toward the pages of two ancient biographers--Plutarch and ...
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