Talk:Julius Caesar/@comment-36103759-20181222184043/@comment-36277500-20190319184336

You know, history is written by victors... There is no such "good" and "evil" in history, unless it concerns unprecedented cruelty (at the 1th century BC such impersonation of cruelty was Licinius Crassus) or sanctity. Historical Caesar was neither angel nor devil, and he was no more cruel than his opponents. You maybe think that Pompey was better? Or Caesar's precedesors, Sulla and Cinna? And I even suppose that one of Caesar's descendants, Octavian, was way more cruel and ruthless - vide the way he dealt with Antony, Cleopatra and Caesarion (Caesar's and Ceopatra's son).

History remembered him as great tactician and charismatic commander (soldiers were devoted to him) and a clever dictator who united scattered and deeply corrupted Republic via his reforms (plebs loved him too). Only ones who hated him were rich and corrupted officials, whom he took away their power from. From the time perspective, he was one of the best things (if not the best one) which happened to Rome.

The same history remembered Brutus as a traitor, and Cassius... who the hell later remembered Cassius (except professional historians)? Maybe Dante, who put Cassius and Brutus into the same drawer with Judas, as "three greatest traitors in history"... While Caesar stayed in history, literature and film industry as Total Badass, Brutus was remembered as Total Jerk and a... brute (Cassius was brainy one in this duo).