Julius Caesar

A detailed Summary of Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar was a first child, born into a rich family. He lived a early life of luxury, with a privileged education. Ever since an early age he had ambitions to be just like his father, who was heavily involved in Roman politics. Caesar was bought up with high expectations and was under a lot of pressure. He was introduced to politics at the age of 15 shortly before his father died, leaving him the head of the family. Shortly before his father died his family encountered hard financial times. Therefore at the age of 16 he married Cornelia, who came from a rich family, and at the age of 18 had a child with her called Julia.

Julius Caesar was a very fit young man, who was very vain. He had good medical health although he suffered from epilepsy, and often had severe headaches. He soon realised that he must enter politics, if he was to save his family from financial crisis, so he set about making his way into Roman politics.

To improve his dwindling public speaking skills he decided he should travel to Rhodes. On his voyage to Rhodes he was capture by pirates. He was so arrogant, that he gave orders to them and made them wait on him and when they asked for a ransom he la

When Caesar was elected consul of Rome he didn't want to share the power. This made the other consul feel humiliated and he would not leave his house. Caesar was running Rome by himself in a reckless way, if he was resisted he would use force. The Roman republic was destroyed and Rome was lawless.

On March the 15th Caesar was in the debating arena. After he had dismissed his body guards he was approached and surrounded by many people. They pulled out knifes from under their and stabbed him twenty three times. As he fell he pulled his cloak over his face so no one could see him die. Five days later he was cremated at a public funeral. When his friends were asked why they had killed him they replied "It was for liberty and freedom!"

ughed in their faces and told them that he would give them twice as much. This life style went on until the ransom was delivered and then the pirates fled. Caesar pursued them, caught them and killed them. He continued on to Rhodes.

When he returned to Rome, he was posted to Spain, which at the time was a Roman territory. Caesar finally had his foot in the door of Roman politics. He took up his honorary position in the senate when he returned, as the person in charge of entertainment. As this was important in Rome, Caesar took this seriously and began his campaign to be elected as consul at the next election. He designed a huge entertainment event, including mock naval battles, wild beasts and gladiator fights. He knew this would appeal to the public

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