Question

What were Julius Caesar's faults?

Answer 1

I keep getting references to Shakespeare's play - not looking for that. This is supposed to be based purely on historical data.

So...besides hubris and a thirst for power (I'm guessing here, since he named himself "dictator for life") what were his faults?

Answer 2

Or is that basically it? (I doubt it)

Answer 3

Also a general disregard for the law, but I suppose that could be fit into hubris. Well at least OTHER people's laws. He seems to have followed his own laws.

Answer 4

caeser assumes both god-like powers of resolution and the constancy of a natural force:
If I could pray to move,prayers would me;but I am constant as the northern star,of whose true fixed and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament..Hence!wilt thou lift up olympus?
Ceaser here is pretensious.
And to my mind he is also arragant:shall caeser send a lie?,have I so far in conquest stretched mine arm so far,to be afraid to tell greybeards the truth?
Decius,go tell them Caeser will not come.
Any how as he often refers to himself in the 3rd person he creates an artificial distance between himself and other mere mortals.
there you go,he is contemptuous,arragant and pretensious.ok?.

Answer 5

It would help to go to this website - http://www.battlefieldanomalies.com/caesar/

Answer 6

Or go here, to his dictatorship - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar#Dictatorship

Answer 7

Thank you!