Reply #8: BTW, great Caesar info here:

[Nordmadr]

http://heraklia.fws1.com/

In the last five years of his life, Caesar prevailed in Civil Wars in Asia and Spain, conquered Egypt, rose to undreamed-of power in the Roman state, rent the fabric of the mos maiorum, was honored like a god for the first time in Roman history, and murdered by his closest associates when they believed he sought the power in name which he already held in fact. For Caesar, as later said of the murdered “Now he belongs to the ages.” The question of the precise nature of Caesar's contribution to the ages has been debated since his death. He is viewed as the callous destroyer of the Republic; as the far-sighted realist who saw clearly the need for one-man rule to fulfill Rome's Imperial destiny; as the reformer who fought the decay of the status quo; as the megalomaniac who leveled Rome’s foundations for his own glory. He was, to some extent, all of these things. Today, there are those who admire him and those who despise him, but no historian of Roman (and European) history can afford to ignore him.



He was a complicated fellow. Not all good, not all bad.

Óláfr