Caesar's Rhetorical Education Was on Full Display

Gaius Julius Caesar, born in 100 BC, had an unusual double heritage. On the one hand, he was a patrician Julius, but on the other, his most important relative was Marius,. One of the greatest gatecrashers in all of Roman political history. The Julie did not have the ancestral exploits that many other noble families could brag of - yet you wouldn't know it from Caesar's audacious remarks. In the parade, he included not just masks of the Julie and Marcy, but also those of Marius and Marius' son. For years the Roman people had not been able to look at a statue of Marius, now they shouted and