What are some interesting facts about Caesar?

Answer 1

1) Caesar was born by the caesarian birth which is named after him.

2) As a young man Caesar was captured by pirates and released when other Romans paid his ransom. He then had the pirates captured and crucified.

3) When Caesar beheld a statue of Alexander the great, he broke down in tears because he was the same age as Alexander when he conquerered his empire, and Caesar as yet had no conquests to compare.

4) The Julian calender that we use today was also named after Julius Caesar, because he commissioned it.

5) Julius Caesar had the falling sickness, aka epilepsy.

6) Caesar is the Roman who started gladiator fights as entertainment. Before then they were funeral rites for a slain leader, in which a sword fight to the death provided a servant to the slain leader in the afterlife.

7) His father-in-law, Cinna, (Corneilia) took part in his killing.