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Aedes Divi Iulii: Julius Caesar and His Times
For discussion of the life of Gaius Julius Caesar, 100-44 BC, and Rome in his time.

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    Books By and About Julius Caesar (124 posts)
    Historical Thread 0 Featured October 29 , 2003

    For discussion of all good books dealing with Caesar's life and times, fiction, non-fiction, and fantasy. ...
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    The Problem with Caesar's Brain
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    Author: * Mamerca Aemilius - 9 Posts on this thread out of 32 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Aug 17, 2006 - 18:12

    The closest you'll ever get to a psych study of Caesar is historical fiction, e.g. Colleen McCullough's series, which is fab, but (as it says on the tin) made up, albeit based on years of detailed research.

    We just don't have much evidence of what he was actually thinking at any point that isn't either tinged by being aimed at a particular audience (e.g. the war commentaries) or from someone else's point of view. We have very little of Caesar's correspondence (maybe two or three letters to Cicero?).

    So the biographer is left to deduce what he can from the evidence. This luminous Roman's mind remains shadowed to us.


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