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Julius Caesar Part 1: The Roman Dictator

Real Dictators

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Julius Caesar, Life of a Colony

Shakespeare lifted his version of caesar mainly from plutarch, the greek biographer. Caesar is seen as wanting to become a permanent dictator. The actual title he held was dictator for life. You can't be a permanent dictator, that is a king. And so he had to die. Nevill morley is professor of classics in a history at the university of exeter.

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