"Tis true, this God did shake. ... Speaking in prose to identify with the ordinary citizen, he justifies his actions by appealing to the crowd's sense of loyalty "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." His use of the rhetorical question, "Who is here so vile that would not love his country" appeals to the crowd's sense of loyalty to the state. ...
Thomas Wiedemann states in his book Emperors and Gladiators, "When Caesar invaded Italy in 49 BC, his opponents were particularly concerned about the 5000 gladiators owned by him kept at or near Capua. "3 It is likely that the opponents of Caesar were simply looking for a means to vilify him rather than having any true concern over his use of gladiators in the armed conflict to come. ... In these cases gladiators often showed uncommon loyalty to their leaders. In Dio's Roman History, he cites the extreme loyalty showed by Marcus Antonius' personal gladiator troop. Like most of the Ro...
The objective of this assessment is to provide evidence in a way that it can be determined to what extent entertainment was indeed a true policy applied by government in order to keep people busy during the reign of Emperor Julius Caesar. ... Analysis The Roman leaders had the obligation to secure the loyalty of their people. ... By having the "major"" needs covered, the emperor made sure that the Romans were undisguisedly cheated out of their true reality and simply followed the rulers without protesting. ...
