![]() Julius Caesar can be seen as a good and bad person. Nearly every one of Caesar’s actions were portrayed in a good way to the public, but they were often evil in every way. Their times, they basically controlled the world. Both were cunning, cruel and merciless, and both were dictators, and had huge amounts of power. ![]() They both killed massive amounts of people, simply because of their race or religion, or in Caesar’s case, just because he wanted the land they lived in. Looking back on Caesar’s actions, you can make a lot of comparisons between him and Adolf Hitler. He was ruthless, and although to the ancient Romans that made him a hero, by today’s standards he was downright evil. He attacked native tribes and wiped them all out, one by one, claiming the land that they had inhabited. He was a womanizer and a strict military leader. He sent people to be in his gladiator games for disobeying even the slightest command, and he killed hundreds of millions of people. He spent way too much money on creating various games for the plebeians and created an unrest in Rome. He was disrespectful of his elders, and all those around him. On the other hand, Caesar was cunning and cruel. He claimed that he always had Rome’s best interests in mind whatever action he took, and he ultimately made Rome a better place. Negative traits and condemnable actions of Caesar Caesar was said to have wept at the sight of Pompey’s head, saying that Pompey was a formidable rival and that he did not deserve such a death. When he arrived in Egypt after the Egyptians had killed his rival Pompey, the Egyptians brought Caesar the head of his old rival. He spent his time creating games such as lavish gladiator games and other forms of entertainment to keep the people happy, and he expanded the Roman Empire by nearly a third of its original size. On the one hand, Caesar always did his best to please the people of Rome. What Caesar did as a good leader to please Roman people Caesar was a bad leader because he did many things that were either cruel or for selfish reasons such as chieving support and rising in power in Rome. So many people have different opinions, and it is hard to say who is wrong and who is right. But there is one thing about Caesar that we don’t know for sure, and maybe we never will. These things we all know to be one hundred percent true. He was a friend to the people, but the senate saw him as a threat. He was the hero of Rome and the enemy of all that opposed it. Proud, ambitious, clever, cunning, strong-willed and minded, and charismatic. Is Julius Caesar really a hero? Gaius Julius Caesar had many traits.
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