![]() ![]() Ploutarchos writes, in Perrin’s translation: According to this alternative account, Caesar was not directly involved in the action of the battle because he was having an epileptic seizure at the time when the battle was taking place. The second time he mentions it is in his Life of Julius Caesar 53.5–6, where he gives an alternative account of the Battle of Thapsus, which took place in 46 BCE. Ploutarchos mentions Caesar’s illness two more times in his biography. “Now, at his love of danger his men were not astonished, knowing his ambition but that he should undergo toils beyond his body’s apparent powers of endurance amazed them, because he was of a spare habit, had a soft and white skin, suffered from distemper in the head, and was subject to epileptic fits, a trouble which first attacked him, we are told, in Corduba.” He writes, as translated by Bernadotte Perrin: 119 CE) records in his biography The Life of Julius Caesar 17.2 that Julius Caesar had a sickness in his head and he suffered from epileptic seizures. The Greek biographer and Middle Platonist philosopher Ploutarchos of Chaironeia (lived c. Ploutarchos of Chaironeia on Caesar’s illness This illness is traditionally identified as epilepsy, based on descriptions of it as such by ancient writers, but the exact cause of the illness cannot really be identified, since Caesar is long dead and the descriptions of his illness in the ancient sources are far too vague for any kind of medical diagnosis. Not many people are aware, however, that, according to several ancient biographers, Julius Caesar had a chronic illness that reportedly caused him to experience headaches, sudden seizures, and vertigo. He been the subject of countless stage plays, films, television shows, and novels and his article on Wikipedia is consistently one of the most frequently viewed articles within WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome. The Roman general and dictator Gaius Julius Caesar (lived 100 – 44 BCE) is one of the most famous figures from all of ancient history.
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