Tuesday, September 3, 2019
The character I found most interesting in the reading is Gaius Julius Cesar. I found him the most interesting because I learned so much about him and this new information contradicted what I thought I knew. I never knew that Cesar had a religious background and this was very interesting to me because I thought Cesar had always been in the upper levels of the Roman class system. Another reason I found Cesar very interesting is because his success is always talked about, but never his failures and the problems he caused the Roman republic. Cesar is made out to be this strong military leader who conquered and allowed Rome to prosper. This reading portrays him in a new light that changed my opinions on Cesar and what he did.
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Many aristocratic males in Rome held some kind of priestly position like pontifex maximus (Caesar), pontifex (Caesar, Crassus, Brutus), Flamen (Caesar started out as Flamen Dialis), augur (Cicero, Marc Antony, Caesar), member of the 15-men board for organizing state sacrifices (Quindecimviri sacris faciundis, like Cato the Younger, Cicero's arch-enemy Publius Clodius Pulcher, Cicero's son-in-law Dolabella, and the historian Tacitus), the Epulones, Salian Priests (Caesar again), Luperci (Marc Antony), Arval Brothers, etc. etc. As a member of an old patrician family, Caesar was almost destined to hold a priesthood at some point. What makes him unusual is how many he held simultaneously.
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