Julius Caesar has always been an important and well-known figure in history. His name lives on, two thousand years after his death. The terms "Kaiser" and "Tsar" are also interpretations of "Caesar". Even today, the name "Caesar" evokes images of ancient Rome, conspiracies, intrigues and murders. Thanks to William Shakespeare, many people know that he was betrayed and killed by his friends. But what made Caesar so fascinating that Shakespeare wrote about Caesar more than fifteen hundred years after his death? Why do we remember Caesar? He was a great military leader and a skilled politician. He was murdered. But there were others in history like Caesar, but we don't remember their names. We remember Caesar because ordinary Romans worshiped him. Caesar could empathize with them and they loved him, to the point of elevating him to the status of a god. It is for the people he led that we remember the name of Caesar. Gaius Julius Caesar was born in 100 BC to Aurelia and Julius Caesar, in the Subura district, not far from the heart of Rome. Although the Caesars belonged to the patrician nobility, much of the family's money had run out by the time of Caesar's birth. It was for this reason that Aurelia and Giulio resided in the less prosperous area of ​​Subura. Because he had grown up in this area, young Caesar had a unique perspective. He was “A patrician descendant of kings who knew intimately the life and sorrows of ordinary Romans” (Freeman 19). Therefore, when he became an adult, he was able to identify with the lower plebeian class better than most Romans in politics at the time. As with most Roman families, the elderly Caesar was often away from... middle of paper......ed? True, he was a great military leader and a great leader of men. Yet this is only part of the reason he was remembered. There have been other great leaders who have not been remembered throughout history as Caesar was. We remember him because the people he governed immortalized him throughout history. The common people of Rome worshiped Caesar and made sure his name endured. Works Cited Canfora, Luciano. Julius Caesar: The Life and Times of the People's Dictator. Trans. Marian Hill and Kevin Windle. Berkeley: University of California, 2007. Print.Freeman, Philip. Julius Caesar. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. Print.Goldsworthy, Adrian. Caesar. New Haven: Yale UP, 2006. Print.Suetonius. The Twelve Caesars: The Lives of the Roman Emperors. Trans. John Carew Rolfe. St. Petersburg, Florida: Red and Black Pub., 2008. Print.