This name has survived, as has Caesar’s reform of the calendar. Even people who know nothing of Caesar as a historic personality are familiar with his family name as a title signifying a ruler who is in some sense uniquely supreme or paramount-the meaning of Kaiser in German, tsar in the Slavonic languages, and qayṣar in the languages of the Islamic world.Ĭaesar’s gens (clan) name, Julius (Iulius), is also familiar in the Christian world, for in Caesar’s lifetime the Roman month Quintilis, in which he was born, was renamed “ July” in his honour. But Caesar’s name, like Alexander’s, is still on people’s lips throughout the Christian and Islamic worlds. The Greco-Roman society has been extinct for so long that most of the names of its great men mean little to the average, educated modern person.
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