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Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

c. 100 BCE–c. 44 BCE · Rome

General and statesman whose commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars are models of clear Latin prose.

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  • To Julius Caesar in Egypt, the Great Pyramid was more ancient than he now is to us

    When Julius Caesar (100–44 BCE) fought his Egyptian campaign in 48 BCE, the Great Pyramid of Giza was already about 2,510 years old. That is a deeper gulf of time than the roughly 2,070 years separating Caesar's campaign from today — the monument was more ancient to Rome's dictator than Rome's dictator is to us.

    How we know

    Julius Caesar 100–44 BCE; Alexandrian campaign 48 BCE. Great Pyramid c. 2560 BCE → 2,512 yrs old at the campaign; campaign→2026 CE ≈ 2,073 yrs (no year 0). 2,512 > 2,073.

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What they did here

Gaius Julius Caesar was born into the patrician gens Julia at Rome in 100 BCE.

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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Julius Caesar’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.

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