Pompey was not an aggressive opponent, and it leads one to wonder what might have happened had he been. Finally, he was lucky in that Pompey’s nerve failed him at critical moments, and his men found sustenance when they needed it most. He also showed his intelligence in turning a weakness into a strength. He was intelligent in making plans and knowing what tactics to employ against Pompey. He was charismatic in that his soldiers remained loyal to him in the direst of circumstances, and in the way he forgave Pompey’s officers and soldiers and incorporated them into his own army. Caesar was bold to make the war in the first place and in his marches and attacks on Pompey’s army. In his war with Pompey, we see evidence of all of his traits and how they played out. Plutarch cross references Caesar’s life with the life of Pompey and Brutus, showing us that he is not trying to write a straightforward history, but more of an heuristic biography. The civil war that he fought with Pompey marked the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the empire. Then he got a flotilla of ships together, hunted down the pirates, and crucified them just as he promised.Ĭaesar rose from being an adventurous youth to a military commander who had great success in the provinces to become the first Roman emperor. Well, Caesar’s ransom came, he was released, and he went home.
He said he could raise fifty and spent the rest of his captivity essentially hanging out with the pirates and joking with them that he would hang and crucify them after he got free. As a young man, he was taken hostage by pirates, who demanded 20 talents for his ransom. Like Alexander, Caesar was bold, right from the beginning.
Caesar’s success, like Alexander’s, seems to have come from the proper mixture of boldness, charisma, intelligence, and luck.
Like Alexander, Caesar was ambitious from a young age and had every intention of making something of himself. ‘Do you think,’ said he, ‘I have not just cause to weep, when I consider that Alexander at my age had conquered so many nations, and I have all this time done nothing that is memorable?’” “His friends were surprised, and asked him the reason of it. Perhaps the more ambitious of us ought to cry with him. So, when Caesar read about Alexander’s life, he burst into tears.
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