Julius Caesar - The Mind of a Dictator | History Documentary
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Julius Caesar is one of the most powerful men in history. An astute politician and moving public speaker who was adored by the common man. He was a masterful, but ruthless, military tactician who added huge swathes of Northern Europe to the Roman Republic.
He was also famous in his lifetime for being the husband of every woman in Rome.
His actions brought about a devastating Civil War and he was made perpetual dictator - Emperor in all but name - before being brutally assassinated after ignoring warnings for his safety
Find out about his epileptic seizures in his final two years and what could have caused them - brain tumour, tapeworm or something else and how his brain disorder could have cost him his life by affecting his judgment.
Discovering more for yourself
So much has been written about Julius Caesar, it is hard to know where to begin. His own accounts of the Gallic and Civil Wars, tell you a lot about him and these can be downloaded for free, but Greg Woolf’s book Et tu Brute is a detailed, but not too detailed, look at how Caesar walked into his assassination. There’s also an excellent section on how his death reverberated through history, across Europe and in America. It's available through my Amazon Store. www.amazon.com/shop/professor...
References:
Gaius Julius Caesar - The Gallic War (Loeb Classical Library, 1917)
Gaius Julius Caesar - The Civil Wars (Loeb Classical Library, 1914)
Lucretius - On the Nature of Things (Translated Leonard, 1916)
Plutarch - The Parallel Lives (Loeb Classical Library, 1919)
Suetonius Tranquillus - The Lives of the Twelve Caesars (Loeb Classical Library, 1913)
Academic References:
Cawthorne, T. (1958). Julius Caesar and the falling sickness. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 51, 27-30.
Dirckx, J. H. (1986). Julius Caesar and the Julian emperors: a family cluster with Hartnup disease?. The American Journal of Dermatopathology, 8(4), 351-357.
Galassi, F. M., & Ashrafian, H. (2015). Has the diagnosis of a stroke been overlooked in the symptoms of Julius Caesar?. Neurological Sciences, 36(8), 1521.
Gladhill, B. (2012). The Emperor's No Clothes: Suetonius and the Dynamics of Corporeal Ecphrasis. Classical Antiquity, 31(2), 315-348.
Gomez, J. G., Kotler, J. A., & Long, J. B. (1995). Was Julius Caesar's epilepsy due to a brain tumor? The Journal of the Florida Medical Association, 82(3), 199-201.
Hughes, J. R. (2004). Dictator Perpetuus: Julius Caesar-Did he have seizures? If so, what was the etiology? Epilepsy & Behavior, 5(5), 756-764.
Hyam, J. A., Paterson, D. J., Aziz, T. Z., & Green, A. L. (2011). Depiction of the neuroscientific principles of human motion 2 millennia ago by Lucretius. Neurology, 77(10), 1000-1004.
Imparato, F. (2016). Celiac disease could have been the cause of Caesar’s epilepsy. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 50(9), 797.
McLachlan, R. S. (2010). Julius Caesar's late onset epilepsy: a case of historic proportions. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 37(5), 557-561.
Montemurro, N., Benet, A., & Lawton, M. T. (2015). Julius Caesar's epilepsy: Was it caused by a brain arteriovenous malformation? World Neurosurgery, 84(6), 1985-1987.
Theodore, W. H. (2021). Epilepsy in the Hippocratic collection: Seizures and syndromes. Epilepsy & Behavior, 115, 107704.
Wolf, P. (2014). History of epilepsy: nosological concepts and classification. Epileptic Disorders, 16(3), 261-269.
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