JULIUS CAESAR THE MAN BEHIND THE LEGEND The Legend We have heard about Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's play with the famous "Et tu Brute" quote, in my case I got to know about him by the Asterix comics showing him as a bumbling old roman emperor troubled by the indomitable Gauls , but there is more about him than I knew. Who was he? A Roman General, Statesman and a Consul, Gaius Julius Caesar is mainly credited for the demise of the Roman Republic(509 BC-27 BC) and Rise of the Roman empire. I had no idea the roman state was republic for five centuries. Watch the movie on Julius Caesar Early Life Born to a Patrician family, Caesar was born in July 100 BC. Not much is known about Caesar's early life, but when he was 16, due to the sudden death of his father he was left as the head of his family. At the same time, there was a civil war going on between his uncle, Gaius Marius, and his rival Luci