Julius Caesar s Leadership Skills - 1893 Words

John Gonzales English 4 Ms. Robinson June 5, 2015 Julius Caesar Et tu, Brute? were Julius Caesar s last words after being assassinated at his own senate. Of a well-known family, Gauis Julius Caesar was born on the 12th of 100BCE. He may have obtained his leadership skills at a very early age due to the fact that he derived from a political family. When Caesar s father died, he became the head of the family. This was the moment when Gauis Julius Caesar took a step forward to excel as the most powerful Roman general during his time. To illustrate how great of a general Caesar was, I have organized this paper into three sections. Two of them have subsections. In the first section, I present Julius Caesar’s biography, which consist of his†¦show more content†¦When Julius Caesar reached the age of 17 he married Cornelia the daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna who was an associate of Gaius Marius, a great popular leader. Lucius Sulla, the dictator of Rome told Caesar to divorce Cornelia, but he refused to do so and decided to head to Greece to study philosophy and oratory.(World Book 12) When he returned to Rome, Caesar and Cornelia had a daughter, Julia. They were married for fifteen years until she died in 69 BC. Cornelia left him with a daughter, but she later then died at the age of twenty two. Two years has passed and Caesar has already found his second wife, Pompeia. She was the daughter of Quintus Pompeius Rufus the son of former consul and Cornelia(Caesar s deceased wife). But they were not m arried for long, Caesar divorced her for suspiciously being part of a crime on 63 BC. Four years later, Caesar was married to his last wife, Calpurnia. But they did not have any children. Death. The republic of Rome has survived for four hundred years. It s an empire without an emperor. Ruled by elected officials and written laws. The senate is at the very top of the society, an elite class of men. All equal, all desperately competing for fame and glory. Their ambition is the force that fuels the state. To win honor and prestige they expand the empire and build the city. Risking that one person may become too powerful. By 44 BC, Julius Caesar is the greatest of these men. He