Influences on Caesar

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Influences on Caesar
  1. Values (mos maiorum)
    1. Family
      1. Dignitas
        1. Patriotism
          1. Traditionalism
            1. Military
            2. Political system (cursus honorum)
              1. measures of political success (link to mos maiorum)
                1. Caesar's use of military success for political
                  1. how the political system worked (ie voting system/Senate)
                    1. rise of the Empire
                      1. how Caesar looked up to men who manipulated Rome illegally (eg?)
                      2. how Caesar used the cursus honorum for social mobility
                      3. Caesar's personality
                        1. Roman society ?
                          1. had little political influence
                            1. lineage from Aeneas = nobility
                              1. ranking in society (Patrician)
                                1. The family he was born into (Roman)
                                2. Social Stratification
                                  1. Plebeain
                                    1. Equites
                                      1. Senator
                                        1. Caesar believed in social mobility
                                          1. because one class is better than the other
                                          2. Caesar sees Plebeain suffering-wants to better Rome?
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