Gaius Julius Caesar
person · earth · Rome, Gaul, Egypt
Proconsul, conqueror of Gaul and dictator, whose career demonstrated that a general with a loyal long-service army was stronger than the institutions meant to control him. He is included not as the empire's founder - he was not - but as the clearest case of the structural problem the Principate was built to solve: an army loyal to its commander rather than to the state. He also extended citizenship widely in Cisalpine Gaul and beyond, prefiguring the later logic of assimilation.
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