Julius Caesar

Let's not beat about the bush.

It was done by violence, and Julius Caesar actually boasted of the more than one million people that his soldiers killed in the conquest of today's France, Switzerland, Belgium, Western Germany.

It was a pretty violent business.

But once they'd done all that, they ruled over a very large part of today's Europe from the Atlantic to the Rhine and from the Mediterranean to the Danube.

It covers around thirty percent of the Earth's land area.

Question five, the name Caesar salad comes from Julius Caesar.

False.

The Caesar salad was named after Italian-American chef Caesar Cardini, who created it in nineteen twenties in Mexico.

It covers around thirty percent of the Earth's land area.

Question five, the name Caesar salad comes from Julius Caesar.

False.

The Caesar salad was named after Italian-American chef Caesar Cardini, who created it in nineteen twenties in Mexico.

So... no actually continue

do you think you're the most influential where would you place yourself in the most influential Italians of all time no of all time fuck it let's go back Julius Caesar got nanked by his own people he's not rated

so Julius Caesar was number one

I don't think so

really

I might have to fucking look for that.

But then go on.

Who else? Other than Guido and Julius Caesar.

Several civil wars had occurred as rival generals and politicians sought preeminence at Rome.

The most recent of these had occurred between Pompeius Magnus and Julius Caesar.

Caesar had emerged victorious in the first years before Tiberius's birth, but he was then assassinated by a cohort of Roman senators in 44 BC.

Octavian, whom Livia married in 38 BC and who became Tiberius's stepfather, was Caesar's great nephew and his adoptive heir.

He also appointed his senior-most allies, such as the general Marcus Agrippa, to other positions of power.

Finally, he adopted the title of princeps and took the name Imperator Caesar Augustus.

Augustus means revered, and Caesar was adopted in honor of his great uncle Julius Caesar.

Princeps means first citizen and was adopted by Augustus to signify that he was now the first citizen of the Roman Republic.

So I will make one more historical parallel and then we'll move closer to the present.

I love your analogy about how Julius Caesar built a bridge across the Rhine in 55 BC, crossed into Germania, and as a demonstration of Roman reach, then withdrew and dismantled the bridge.

But what happened 64 years later in 9 AD is Publius Quinticillus Varus was ambushed by Arminius at the Battle of Teutonburg Forest.

And I mean, Teutonburg Forest was the greatest defeat that the Roman Empire suffered when at the height of its powers.

Are we sure we want it to end? The Roman Republic experimented with multipolarity in the first century BC.

In a secret informal agreement, Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus agreed to share power.

It ended in blood, betrayal, and a play by William Shakespeare.

The Romans tried to create a stronger, formalized triumvirate a year later, this one between Octavian, Lepidus, and Mark Antony.

And you saw that on the social media too, right? I was reading that, but I said I'd better just stay out because they were really just saying, you shouldn't live there.

And it's like, okay, but they've been living there since Julius Caesar introduced Cleopatra there in the Serapis market, since the Apostle Paul landed on the pier of Proteoli to stay seven days and nights with the brothers of his faith.

You think they're just going to move? Because that's their history.

That's their background.

Who? Stephen and George.

We did a three-handed Julius Caesar together.

I don't want to know about your sexual conquests.

Stop.