Polybius,+Livy,+Zonaras,+Pausanias,+Appian.+Ancient+Sources+on+Julius+Caesar

A collection of documents concerning Julius Caesar, from his rise to power to his assassination This collection of documents gives a number of different views concerning Caesar. One author writes that "Our tyrant deserved his death" and another calls him "the Father of his Country."

Suetonius: thought favorably of Caesar, stressed that Caesar was a good leader to his troops, also a court biographer Plutarch: concerned with morals and themes than actual history (virtues of the republic, emperor), compares Cicero: