Aims
The aims of this research project is to elucidate how
history or historians have defined the
attributes of a great leader as opposed to that of a tyrant, when analysing the legacy
of both Julius Caesar (100BC – 44BC) and Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945) both of
whom have been portrayed as men who have achieved notoriety due to the manner
in which they governed their respective country/empire. This essay centres ostensibly
on the statement “Julius Caesar was a
man of action; Adolf Hitler a man of words, what connects these two men, given
that almost 2000 years separate them”?
Limitations
The main limitation of this type of research is finding
resources for study, while in the case of Adolf Hitler this is not a problem
due to the vast amount of surviving writings as well as many revisionist views
available, the same cannot be said of Julius Caesar. While his memoirs are
available and a small number of other works are available they do not give as
much in the way of factual information as we would like and so require much
more attention to be able to build an accurate deduction.
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