Julius Caesar: Great Leader Or Not

“To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.” by Sun Tzu. Julius Julius Caesar was a great leader, as he fought through countless political problems he always found his way. Born into a senatorial, patrician family, and was the nephew of a famous Roman general, Marius. His lineage helped him achieve what couldn’t have been done. “Julius Caesar, in full Gaius Julius Caesar, (born July 12/13, 100?, Rome [Italy]—died March 15, 44 BCE, Rome), celebrated Roman general and statesman, the conqueror of Gaul (58–50 BCE), victor in the civil war of 49–45 BCE, and dictator (46–44 BCE)” as written by Encyclopædia Britannica. Caesar was a great leader with an endless pit of courage, integrity, and not forgetting a vision of the future. Caesar builds the very foundation of the Roman Empire with reforms that took a lot of courage to sprout.

Julius Caesar was always being bombarded with laws, vetoes, or even attempts of the sabbath by the senate and of the higher-ups. Compared to other leaders that would have already given up Caesar pushed through and thrived to the fullest. As in the article by Encyclopædia Britannica (Julius Caesar) “He found time in the year 46 BCE to reform the Roman calendar. In 45 BCE he enacted a law laying down a standard pattern for the constitutions of the municipal, which were by this time the units of local self-government in most of the territory inhabited by Roman citizens. In 59 BCE Caesar had already resurrected the city of Capua, which the republican Roman regime more than 150 years earlier had deprived of its juridical corporate personality; he now resurrected the other two great cities, Carthage and Corinth, that his predecessors had destroyed.' Julius changed the calendar to what we know today. With the calendar before Julius's reform, politicians or money-thirsty people used it as a monopoly of money to control. Later in history, July was a commemoration of Caesar. His view of his future was wide and open for him for the taking as he had a mind of no other ever.

Having a view of one's future is having a ten-second advantage in a game. That chess players play in a game of probability of the opponent's movement and strategy to overcome that move. Life is not easy, and we all lose sight of what to pursue, but Caesar didn’t lose sight of his. As to when his family territory was being taken over he went through with it in “Julius Caesar” by Britannica School, “In 47 BCE he fought a brief local war in northeastern Anatolia with Pharnaces, king of the Cimmerian Bosporus, who was trying to regain Pontus, the kingdom of his father, Mithridates. Caesar’s famous words, Veni, Vidi, vici (“I came, I saw, I conquered”), are his own account of this campaign.” and in “ancient Rome” also by Britannica School “Gaius Julius Caesar, descended (as he insisted) from kings and gods, had shown talent and ambition in his youth: he opposed Sulla but without inviting punishment, married into the oligarchy but advocated popular causes, vocally defended Pompey’s interests while aiding Crassus in his intrigues and borrowing a fortune from him, flirted with Catiline but refused to dabble in revolution, then worked to save those whom Cicero executed.” As we all have visions that are high and might or small, like gaining a bonus on your check. Life is short and we have to achieve what we most want and never let it go no matter what others say or if they oppose it.

We all have to achieve what we want and those achievements orientate us to what to do next. Caesar has a handful of victories as of defeats. In “Julius Caesar” by History.com Editors he had a good amount piling up one after another “The statesman and general Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.) expanded the Roman Republic through a series of battles across Europe before declaring himself dictator for life”, “but in the early 60s b.c. he launched his own successful political and military career”, “Rising rapidly, he campaigned successfully for the consulship in 60 b.c. and struck a deal with two of Rome’s leading figures, Pompey the Great and Crassus. Together the three of them became known as the First Triumvirate and controlled Rome throughout the 50s b.c.” and “In the summers of 55 and 54 b.c., Caesar sailed across the English Channel, thereby securing his northern flank along the Rhine in Gaul by precluding a Celtic attack from across the Channel, though Britain did not become a Roman province for another hundred years.”. Those achievements gave him the fame, respect, and power to pursue his vision. As he all this fame the most crucial part to due to theses achievements was his background and connections.

Gaius Julius Caesar was born as any human being was and is supposed to be born as, a warrior. Caesar has an uncle that was a general, a mother, and a father that were well known to the Roman Empire. As he grew older he had children that would, later on, help in negotiations between nations or in obtaining an agreement in a party. As in “Julius Caesar” by “Crassus—like Pompey, a former lieutenant of Sulla—had been one of the most active of Pompey’s obstructors so far. Only Caesar, on good terms with both, was in a position to reconcile them. Early in 59 BCE, Pompey sealed his alliance with Caesar by marrying Caesar’s only child, Julia. Caesar married Calpurnia, daughter of Lucius Piso, who became consul in 58 BCE.” and also “Julius Caesar, in full Gaius Julius Caesar, (born July 12/13, 100? BCE, Rome [Italy]—died March 15, 44 BCE, Rome)” As time pass by life is an unfair thought of judgment and illogical thoughts.

However, Gaius Julius Caesar gained too much power in so little time, like generals, scholars, senate, and other people that spent most of their lives in gaining that position Caesar gained it in a matter of time that seems too short. As power can be gained in a battle of mischief or unrightful ways it is still possible to obtain it without it. Though with time Caesar's luck is depleted when he is stabbed by “friends”, old enemies, and greedy politicians. Caesar had achievements that no other in that time has ever achieved and had a vision of obtaining what he wants as in a political way or a dispute.

Julius is a memorable person that has changed a whole country and even gave it a stable foundation that even went on after his death, also his reform changed the way we see a calendar that we use today in our everyday life. I ask you this, would you change what could be changed if you had a chance?