For a person to be a great well-known leader, one must be influential and well respected by others. There were many leaders who have set goals for themselves and for the country itself. Julius Caesar was one of the greatest and influential leaders of all times. Roman emperors who followed in Julius Caesar's footsteps were as different in abilities and personalities as the main characters in the play written by William Shakespeare. Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, who was also known as Augustus was a great successor after the death of Julius Caesar. Both Caesar and Augustus contributed many great victories to Rome. They have achieved a lot while they were in reign. Though they were very similar in terms of their personality, they were also very different in their abilities, strategies, and accomplishments. Their distinctive personalities and accomplishments make them different from other rulers. .
Julius Caesar and Augustus were both biologically related to each other. Augustus was the nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar. Augustus was put into Caesar's will, because Caesar had no heir Augustus would become the next dictator of Rome. As Caesar and Augustus ruled over Rome, they were both thought of as tyrants. There acts were very ruthless, cruel, and merciless. While fighting in Spain in 49 B.C., he was ordered to surrender his troops by Romans who were fearful of his power. He refused and disobeyed orders by crossing the Rubicon River with his forces, thereby provoking civil war. His act of refusing to obey the Romans made him seem like a tyrant, making decision without thinking about it thoroughly of how it would be affected on others. Caesar defeated his Roman enemy Pompey and within a short time controlled the entire Roman Empire. As dictators, they would kill off anyone who disobeyed their commands. Such an example is shown in Shakespeare's play, when he wrote about how Flavius and Marullus were silenced by Julius Caesar and dispatched from the country.