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Julius Caesar Part 1: The Roman Dictator
Real Dictators
What's the Difference Between a Roman General and a King?
There's a tradition of being very suspicious of anyone who looks like they might want to be a king. And caesar really looks like a king. He's got too much power in a system where no one person is supposed to have it. You can argue that he uses it quite sort of positively, that a lot of what he does seems to be popular. But the reason you would seem as a dictator is simply, no one should have that supreme authority,. That's the great ambiguity about caesar - there is much that is very impressive, very good, very noble about what he achieved. There's also a lot that's savage.
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