Ceasar

Caesar the Politician Caesar Ronald Syme, the author of the assigned passage, is one of the leading ancient historians of the present. He was an Oxford professor, and wrote the Roman Revolution in the late 1930’s. To Syme, one-person rule was not appealing to him. He lived in a time of WWII, and leaders like Hitler. By the time Syme began to write, there was much more research on the dismal side of Caesar’s …

…for only Caesar knew what those were. Factually, we can extract from his writings, and those of the other authors of his time, that Caesar was a realist and an opportunist. However, his time was cut too short for Caesar to actually establish a strong form of government, based on his intentions. Caesar’s game plan shall forever remain a mystery, making it difficult for modern historians to arbitrate the man that Caesar truly was.