![]() ![]() ![]() Oh, and if this counts as a sign of greatness too, a highly successful bedder of other men's wives. About Caesar's greatness, though, there can be no argument: charismatic, daring, brilliant, charming, a supreme political operator, a brilliant military tactician and improviser, a writer of admirable simplicity in an age of tiresome floridity. Our definition of what constitutes "good" nowadays being utterly different to that of the Romans anyway, and morality being rather more time-tied than we like to admit, arguments about any historical figure's goodness or badness tend to be fairly worthless. Julius Caesar was great, if not good, acknowledges Goldsworthy in this definitive and entertaining new biography. ![]()
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