Caesar's Writings
This is the title of Caesar's commentary on the Gallic Wars.
What is the Commentarii de Bello Gallico?
This is the Greek historian who wrote about Caesar's assassination.
Who is Plutarch?
This is who wrote Caesar: Life of a Colossus.
Who is Adrian Goldsworthy?
This is what makes a first-hand source useful.
What is providing direct evidence from the time?
What is how well a source answers an historical question?
This was the main purpose of Caesar's commentaries.
What is to provide political propaganda and justification?
This is the author who described Caesar's death as restoring liberty.
This historian coined the phrase 'The Roman Revolution.'
Who is Ronald Syme?
This is why Suetonius' account is sometimes unreliable.
What is his writings are based on gossip and written much later?
This is the reason historians must evaluate an author's motive.
What is it affects accuracy and perspective?
This is how Caesar portrays himself in the Gallic Wars.
What is as a rational, merciful, and heroic person?
This is the moral lesson Plutarch drew from Caesar's life.
What is ambition leads to downfall?
This is how Marxist influence shaped Syme's view of Caesar.
What is a focus on class conflict and power structures?
This is how the intended audience might shape a sources relaibility.
What is writers adjusting facts to please readers or rulers?
Evaluate whether Caesar's commentaries are more propaganda than history.
What is they are largely propaganda but contain verifiable military details?
This is the limitations of Caesar's authorship that is imposed on historical reconstruction.
What is selective omission of failures?
This is how Cicero's correspondence contrasts with Plutarch's narrative.
What is giving an immediate reaction compared to Plutarch moralising retrospectively?
This is how Christian Meier views Caesar's reforms.
What is as a genuine attempt at stabilisation, not tyranny?
This is the reason a historian might cross-reference multiple sources?
What is to help identify bias and corroborate facts?
Evaluate how Suetonius' imperial context influences his depiction of Caesar.
What is he legitimises imperial rule by portraying Caesar as both warning and prototype?
This is the event that Caesar describes in De Bello Civili that reveals his justification for crossing the Rubicon.
What is his belief of defending the rights of the tribunes and the Roman people?
Who is Nicolaus Damascus?
This modern historian argued that Caesar was 'a revolutionary reformer, not merely a usurper.'
Who is Christian Meier?
This is how coins from Caesar's dictatorship provides evidence of his propaganda.
What is depicting his portrait and divine titles, demonstrating self-promotion?
This archaeological discovery supports aspects of Caesar's campaigns in Gaul.
What are the remains of fortifications at Alesia?