Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus returned power to the people. Caesar sought power. Maybe Caesar wasn't a commie-pedo-demon, but that still leaves the dictator thing.
Gaius Julius Caesar - Born 100 BC.... Died March 15th, 44 BC
You're regurgitating a revisionist retelling of what happened. The power Caesar used to correct the long abuses and negligence of the Senators was reabsorbed right back into the ranks of the political elite. There was no return of power to the people because the people—primarily the lower and middle classes—immediately broke out into riots and eventually a civil war with the elite class. Caesar was no tyrant in his political climate.
Yet it was tribunal authority (power of the people), not senatorial rank or consulship, that gave the emperors their Authoritas along with military command their Imperium.
The senate never really held any real power after that and was more of a status and social club, so I guess you could say, in a way that Caesar had accomplished what the Populares had set out to do.
Rome carried on under Augustus under the illusion that the Republic had been restored. Little did they know
It probably took until crisis of the third century for the nakedness of the tyrannical dictatorship to be revealed to the people
But when Cincinnatus was appointed Dictator there was a functioning Republic. By Caesar's time the Republic had already been dying for decades. He may not have been able or willing to ever lay down his Dictatorship as did Cincinnatus or Sulla but he was the only thing holding the remnant of a dying Republic together. The similarities between then and now are striking.
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus returned power to the people. Caesar sought power. Maybe Caesar wasn't a commie-pedo-demon, but that still leaves the dictator thing.
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus - Died circa 430 BC
Gaius Julius Caesar - Born 100 BC.... Died March 15th, 44 BC
You're regurgitating a revisionist retelling of what happened. The power Caesar used to correct the long abuses and negligence of the Senators was reabsorbed right back into the ranks of the political elite. There was no return of power to the people because the people—primarily the lower and middle classes—immediately broke out into riots and eventually a civil war with the elite class. Caesar was no tyrant in his political climate.
Yet it was tribunal authority (power of the people), not senatorial rank or consulship, that gave the emperors their Authoritas along with military command their Imperium.
The senate never really held any real power after that and was more of a status and social club, so I guess you could say, in a way that Caesar had accomplished what the Populares had set out to do.
Rome carried on under Augustus under the illusion that the Republic had been restored. Little did they know
It probably took until crisis of the third century for the nakedness of the tyrannical dictatorship to be revealed to the people
Truly a scholar. TY ?
But when Cincinnatus was appointed Dictator there was a functioning Republic. By Caesar's time the Republic had already been dying for decades. He may not have been able or willing to ever lay down his Dictatorship as did Cincinnatus or Sulla but he was the only thing holding the remnant of a dying Republic together. The similarities between then and now are striking.