He was given numerous military commands and led legions upon legions of Roman soldiers over the years.
You might say that he had shown great potential for advancement in his chosen career path.
But what most catapulted his career was serving in the capacity of a conquering military general. He defended well-established, high-profile clients. Go figure! Later, he began to search for his true calling in life, practicing law as an advocate. Among his earlier achievements, he was appointed to the position of high priest. In addition, he had the additional benefit of pursuing a soundly tutored, logically focused, philosophical education, which would prepare him for the fast-track career of his choosing either as a civic-minded office holder or a uniformed military leader. He was intelligent and keenly perceptive about his social status. to a noble and aristocratic family which was well-connected in the Republic of Rome. Julius Caesar was born in the year 100 B.C. Author, Adrian Goldsworthy, in his highly acclaimed historical and biographical work entitled Caesar: Life of a Colossus advises us of this fact among others. ⭐That Napoleon Bonaparte reportedly read the literary works of Julius Caesar extensively, speaks volumes of the latter’s influence on posterity centuries later.
Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:
Goldsworthy realizes the full complexity of Caesar’s character and shows why his political and military leadership continues to resonate thousands of years later. This landmark biography examines Caesar in all of these roles and places its subject firmly within the context of Roman society in the first century B.C. Goldsworthy also reveals much about Caesar’s intimate life, as husband and father, and as seducer not only of Cleopatra but also of the wives of his two main political rivals. This “captivating biography” of the great Roman general “puts Caesar’s war exploits on full display, along with his literary genius” and more (The New York Times) Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the Julius Caesar’s life, Adrian Goldsworthy not only chronicles his accomplishments as charismatic orator, conquering general, and powerful dictator but also lesser-known chapters during which he was high priest of an exotic cult and captive of pirates, and rebel condemned by his own country.
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