Denix Roman 1st Century BC Julius Caesar Sword Replica

• REFERENCE 4116/L
• Weight: 2,545 g
• Width: 11.00 (cm)
• Height: 74.00 (cm)
• Depth: 7.00 (cm)

DENIX ROMAN SWORD, 1ST CENTURY BC - RED

Item no: 4116/L
Time     : Antiquity

DETAILS

This is a replica of a Roman Sword from the Julius Caesar period, 1st Century b.C. Gladius is a Latin word for sword used in the Roman period, it is used to represent the primary sword of Ancient Roman Foot Soliders. The early Roman sword, the gladius, was like many swords of that time, there was no cross-guard and the hilt was usually just a prolongation of the blade. After the first century b.C, an iron sword was adopted that used two-edged parallel sides, the sword was carried often in an ornamental scabbard, this particular replica comes with one. With swords like this, it is easy to see how the Roman Soliders got their well deserved reputaton for bravery, often a solider was armed with a shield, one or two javelins, a sword and a dagger.

Gladius, Roman period, 1st century BC

Ornamental / decoratif arms, blade is not sharp.

HISTORIE

Sword of Julius Caesar, Roman Period, 1st Century BC

Gaius Iulius Caesar, Rome, Italy, July 13, 100 BC.J.-C. - Ibid., March 15, 44 BC.J.-C.) was a military and political leader of the late Republican era.

Born in the Gen Iulia, in a patrician family of small fortune, he was related to some of the most influential men of his time, such as his uncle Cayo Mario, who exercised a decisive influence in his political career.In 84 y.C., at the age of 16, the popular Cinna named him flamen dialis, a religious position which was relieved by Sila, with whom he had conflicts due to his marriage to Cinna's daughter.After escaping to die at the hands of the dictator's assassins, he was pardoned through the intercession of his mother's parents.Moved to Asia, he fought in the Third Mithrictic War as Marco Minucio Termus legatus.He returned to Rome at the death of Sila in 78 a.C., practicing law for a time.In 73 y.C. succeeded his uncle Gaius Aurelio Cotta pontiff,and became involved with the consuls Pompey and Crassus, whose Amicitia would enable him to launch his own political career.In 70 y.C. Cesar served as quaestor in the province of Hispania and as edil curul in Rome.During the exercise of this magistracy, he offered spectacles which people remembered for a long time.

In 63 a.C. was chosen praetor urbanus to obtain more votes than the other candidates for pretura.In the same year Quintus Cecilius Metellus Pius died, appointed Pontifex Maximus during the dictatorship of Sila, and, in the elections held to replace him, Caesar won.When his praetorian ended, he served as propraetor in Hispania, where he led a brief campaign against the Lusitanians.In 59 a.C. was elected consul thanks to the support of his two political allies, Pompey and Crassus, the men with whom Caesar formed the so-called First Triumvirate.His colleague in the consulship, Bibulus retired to hinder Caesar's work, however, managed to push through a series of legal measures, among them an agrarian law regulating the distribution of land among veterans.

After his consulship was designated proconsul of the provinces of Gaul Transalpina, Iliria and Galia Cisalpina;the latter after the death of its governor, Céler.His government was characterized by a very aggressive policy in which he submitted to virtually all Celtic peoples in several campaigns.This conflict, known as the Gallic War, ended when the Republican general won the Battle of Alesia over the last foci of opposition, under the leadership of an Arvier leader named Vercingetorix.His conquests extended Roman rule over territories that today include France, Belgium, Holland and part of Germany.He was the first Roman general to penetrate the uncharted territories of Britain and Germany.

While Caesar finished organizing the administrative structure of the new province that was annexed to the Republic, his political enemies tried in Rome to strip him of his army and his position using the Senate, where they were the majority.Caesar, knowing that if he entered the capital he would be tried and exiled, tried to run for the consulship in absentia, which most of the senators refused.These and other factors led him to question senatorial orders and featuring the famous crossing of the Rubicon, where seemingly uttering the immortal phrase "Alea iacta" (the die is sunk) initiating a conflict known as of the Second Civil War of the Republic of Rome, where he faced the optimates, led by his old ally, Pompey.his victory,based on the defeats inflicted on the conservatives of Pharsalia, Tapso and Munda, makes him the ruler of the Republic.The fact that he was at war with half the Roman world did not prevent him from facing Farnaces II at Zela and the enemies of Cleopatra VII at Alexandria.Back in Rome, he became consul and dictator perpetuus - dictator for life - and initiated a series of economic, urban and administrative reforms.

Although under his rule the Republic experienced a brief period of great prosperity, some senators saw Caesar as a tyrant who sought to restore the monarchy.In order to eliminate the threat posed by the dictator, a group of senators formed by some of his trusted men as Brutus and Cassius and former lieutenants as Trebonius and Decimus Brutus, they hatched a plot in order to remove him.This intrigue culminated when, on the Ides of March, the conspirators assassinated Caesar in the Senate.

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