![]() ![]() Caesar played this game assiduously, and so successfully that he joined with the two acknowledged masters of Roman politics, Pompey and Crassus, to form the "First Triumvirate," who eclipsed and lorded over all other Romans. Prior to Caesar's time, ambitious Romans began to build up independent bases of power in the army and the mob in Rome itself, and to appropriate the state's financial resources to pay their supporters. The most striking aspect of Michael Grant's biography of Caesar is how it shows the Roman Republic also slid gradually into despotism, rather than falling all at once. The borders became porous, "barbarians" gradually were enlisted in the Roman army and given citizenship even though they were not assimilated into the country's culture, several barbarian kings were given the emperor's crown to induce them to halt their depredations, and finally, when Odoacer officially brought the West Roman Empire to an end in 476 A.D., the only thing he did differently from his predecessors was that he sent the Roman Emperor's insignia of office to the East Roman Empire in Constantinople and ruled as the conqueror of Rome, rather than calling himself Roman Emperor. ![]() #When was julius caesar born seriesRather, it fell gradually, in a series of small steps. When the Roman Empire fell, it did not fall all at once. The borders became porous, "barbarians" gradually were enlisted in the Roman army and given citizenship even though they were not assimilated into the country's culture, several barbarian kings were given the emperor's crown to induce them to halt their depred A short but well-written biography of Julius Caesar based primarily upon the writings of Caesar himself and his contemporaries. A short but well-written biography of Julius Caesar based primarily upon the writings of Caesar himself and his contemporaries. ![]()
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