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Julius Caesar (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Gaius Julius Caesar (SEE-zur) is better known as a leader than as a writer. However, his histories were models of the simple expository style of composition. Born into a Roman patrician family, he was required to prepare himself for political or military service to the state. He determined upon the military life because a relative, Marius, was the leader of the populārēs, the more democratic of the two groups who struggled for control of the state at the time. He was tutored in Greek and Latin literature and rhetoric. When his father died, Caesar at sixteen assumed the toga...

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