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Caesar and related
As judged by the carved titles of Caesar, Augustus and Germanicus, the related march took place between 84 AD and 96 AD.
Many of the major gods were related to Greek gods ; the primary god worshiped at the time of the arrival of Caesar was Teutates, the Gallic equivalent of Mercury.
In Romania and Portugal, it is usually called cesariana, meaning from ( or related to ) Caesar.
Although Julius Caesar recorded that the druids of Gaul, Britain and Ireland had metempsychosis as one of their core doctrines, there is no indication that it was significantly related to that concept among the Greeks.
The rise of Palpatine dismantling a democracy and rising to supreme power as Emperor is related to the real-world examples of Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Adolf Hitler.
The deaths of Pompey ( 48 BCE ), Caesar ( 44 BCE ), and the related Roman civil wars temporarily relaxed Rome's grip on Israel, allowing a very brief Hasmonean resurgence backed by the Parthian Empire.
However, the Russian rulers took up the title Caesar () and claimed to continue in the role of the Eastern Roman Emperors to whom some were related and with whom they shared their denomination.
A final theory posits that the Percheron and the Boulonnais breed are closely related, and that the Boulonnais influenced the Percheron when they were brought to Brittany as reinforcements for the legions of Caesar.
In 1991, controversy was sparked as one of the famous DJs, Chris Ryder ( aka Caesar the Boogieman ), was terminated from his job over criminal charges related to theft from charity.
Caesar was the nephew of Gaius Marius, and Cornelia had been the daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna so that they were related to both the leaders of the losing populares side in the civil war of the 80s BC.
Caesar has lectured on media, photography and art related issues at Birmingham University and Wolverhampton University.
Although not related to them, Cinna shared the surname ( cognomen ) of the high noble ( consular ) aristocratic house of Corneli Cinnae, relatives by marriage of the famous Caesar.
Not forgetting the time he spent with Sid Caesar, Perry would often tell jokes related to some of the questions asked on $ ale.
Rodney was born at Lewes, Delaware, son of John and Ruth Hunn Rodney, brother of future Governor Caleb Rodney, and distantly related to President Caesar Rodney.
It probably takes its name from the nearby River Seiont, and may be related to the Segontiaci, a British tribe mentioned by Julius Caesar.

Caesar and tradition
In this tradition Julius Caesar is sometimes described as the first Caesar / emperor ( following Suetonius ).
William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar begins during the Lupercalia, with the tradition described above.
This constitutional tradition prevented both Julius Caesar and Octavian Augustus from accepting a crown ; instead they had to devise a confluence of several republican offices onto their persons in order to secure absolute power.
After his victory in the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC, fought against the army led by the assassins of Julius Caesar, Octavian tried to pay off his veterans with land expropriated from towns in northern Italy, supposedly including, according to the tradition, an estate near Mantua belonging to Virgil.
Although authors such as Anne Perry wrote in the genre during the next decade, it wasn't until about 1990 that the genre's popularity saw a fairly quick ascent with works such as Lindsey Davis's Falco novels, set in the Roman Empire of Vespasian ; Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody novels, in which the main character is not only a Victorian lady but an early feminist and an archaeologist working in early 20th century Egypt ; Steven Saylor's " Roma Sub Rosa " novels, set in the Roman Republic at the time of Julius Caesar ; John Maddox Roberts's SPQR series set during the Roman Republic ; and P. C. Doherty's various series, including The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, the Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries, partly indebted to the hardboiled tradition, and the Canterbury Tales of Mystery and Murder.
1240 ), sometimes erroneously called in English Caesar of Heisterbach ( there is no Latin tradition in the manuscripts that refers to this author as Caesar, therefore this variant is unwarranted ), was the prior of the former Cistercian Heisterbach Abbey, in the Siebengebirge near the little town of Oberdollendorf, Germany.
The biographical tradition of the tenth century Byzantine ( Suda ) defines Theon as " the man from the Mouseion "; however, both the Library of Alexandria and the Mouseion may not have existed in the fourth century as Ammianus Marcellinus ( Historia 22. 15, 12-13 ), writing in 378 refers to the Serapeum Library as thing of the past, destroyed in the time of Julius Caesar.
His work as a military intellectual places him in the tradition of Xenophon, Julius Caesar, Ammianus Marcellinus, and Flavius Merobaudes.
Ethnography had a long and distinguished heritage in classical literature, and the Germania fits squarely within the tradition established by authors from Herodotus to Julius Caesar.
A later collection of triads compiled by the 18th-century Welsh antiquarian Iolo Morganwg gives an expanded version of this tradition, including the details that Caswallawn had abducted Fflur from Caesar in Gaul, killing 6, 000 Romans, and that Caesar invaded Britain in response.
Despite the usual tradition of prominent prisoners in triumphs ' being strangled when the festivities were at an end, Caesar was pressured to spare Arsinoe and granted her sanctuary at the temple of Artemis in Ephesus.
A large tradition seems to have once surrounded Caswallawn, involving his wars against Julius Caesar and Rome, his love for the maiden Fflur and his eventual departure from Britain with 21, 000 men, never to be seen again.
Caesar describes the Belgae as going to Britain looking for booty: " The inland part of Britain is inhabited by tribes declared in their own tradition to be indigenous to the island, the maritime part by tribes that migrated at an earlier time from Belgium to seek booty by invasion.
Alternatively, a more idiomatic style may develop into an equally prestigious tradition of titles, because of the shining example of the original – thus various styles of Emperors trace back to the Roman Imperator ( strictly speaking a republican military honorific ), the family surname Caesar ( turned into an imperial title since Diocletian's Tetrarchy ).
It was technically true that the Court, as it was no longer part of the Privy Council, could not claim jurisdiction based on tradition, but in 1597 Sir Julius Caesar gave examples of times when the common law courts had recognised the Court of Requests ' jurisdiction as recently as 1585.

Caesar and Celtic
Gauls are associated with Celtic languages, and the term Germani is associated with Germanic languages, but Caesar did not mention language.
In his second invasion, Caesar took with him a substantially larger force and proceeded to coerce or invite many of the native Celtic tribes to pay tribute and give hostages in return for peace.
* Paleopaganism: A retronym coined to contrast with " Neopaganism ", " original polytheistic, nature-centered faiths ", such as the pre-Hellenistic Greek and pre-imperial Roman religion, pre-Migration period Germanic paganism as described by Tacitus, or Celtic polytheism as described by Julius Caesar.
In antiquity, a Celtic oppidum stood on the “ Engehalbinsel ” north of Bern, fortified since the 2nd century BC ( late La Tène period ), thought to be one of the twelve oppida of the Helvetii mentioned by Caesar.
The antique name of Angers, Juliomagus, is composed of Julius, probably a dedication to Julius Caesar, and of the Celtic word magos, which means " market ".
At the time of the conquest of Gaul by Caesar, a Roman stopping place was built next to the Celtic village.
Because, even after the campaign of Publius Crassus in 57 BC, continued resistance to Roman rule in Armorica was still being supported by Celtic aristocrats in Britain, Julius Caesar led two invasions of Britain in 55 and 54 in response.
Most of the area became part of Roman territory during the invasion of Celtic Gaul led by Julius Caesar and was at various times part of the regions of Lugdunensis and Gallia.
Caesar invaded the region in 57 BC and in the next three years annihilated several tribes, including the Eburones and the Menapii, whom Caesar called " Germanic " but who probably were Celtic or at least mixed Celtic-Germanic.
It is possibly derived from the name of the Celtic tribe which was known to the Romans as Volcae ( in the writings of Julius Caesar ) and to the Greeks as Ouólkai ( Strabo and Ptolemy ).
The Celtic word duron, Latinised in durum was probably used to translate the Latin word forum ( Compare Fréjus Forum Julii, dedicated to Julius ( Caesar )).
Already inhabited in Celtic times, the town was later named Pax Julia by Julius Caesar in 48 BCE, when he made peace with the Lusitanians.
The primitive Λουκοτοκία ( Strabon ), Λευκοτεκία ( Ptolemeus ), Lutetia ( Caesar ) may contain the Celtic root * luco-t-' mouse ' +-ek ( t ) ia = ' the mice ', Breton logod, Welsh llygod, Irish luch ( cf.
At the same time that Caesar received Ariovistus's message, he heard from his Celtic allies that the Harudes were devastating the country of the Aedui and that 100 units of Suebi under the brothers Nasua and Cimberius were about to cross the Rhine.
Caesar was not far away, probably at or near Bibracte, where he had just won a major victory over the Helvetii and other Celtic tribes, and had disposed of the remaining Boii, allowing them to settle in Aeduan land.
Caesar says that he took a detour to stay in open country, most likely west of the Doubs through the lands of his Celtic allies.
Caesar was known to use Celtic interpreters and sent a Celtic-speaking envoy to Ariovistus.
" Julius Caesar described the larger Celtic Iron Age settlements he encountered in Gaul as oppida, and the term is now used to describe the large pre-Roman towns that existed all across western and central Europe.
A wicker man was a large wicker statue of a human used by the ancient Druids ( priests of Celtic paganism ) for human sacrifice by burning it in effigy, according to Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico ( Commentary on the Gallic War ).
In writing his commentaries on the Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar uses the term only for Celtic generals, with one exception for a Roman commander who held no official rank.
* 58 – 51 BCE, Cyprus becomes a Roman province, Conquest of Celtic Gaul to the Rhine by Julius Caesar, Gallic Wars.
Julius Caesar, in his Gallic Wars, refers to a Gaulish ally called Valerius Donnotaurus, an interesting Celtic parallel to the Donn Tarbh of Cooley.
Julius Caesar completed the task by defeating the Celtic tribes in the Gallic Wars of 58-51 BC and the romanization that ensued was quickest in the cities ; Latin was spoken by a majority of Gauls in the third century AD but with some remains of the Gallic language.

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