The Rise of Gaius Julius Caesar, with an Account of His Early Friends, Enemies, and Rivals: Part I Author(s): Henry H. Howorth Source: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Vol. 1 (1907), pp. 33-97 Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Royal Historical Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3678283 Accessed: 27-06-2016 02:52 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Royal Historical Society, Cambridge University Press are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Transactions of the Royal Historical Society This content downloaded from 128.163.2.206 on Mon, 27 Jun 2016 02:52:52 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms THE RISE OF GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS EARLY FRIENDS, ENEMIES, AND RIVALS By Sir HENRY H. HOWORTH, K.C.I.E., F.R.S., Hon. .-P. Read December 14, 1906 PART I IT is assuredly a memorable fact that the beginning of our history, which has been in many ways unmatched, should be closely associated with a personage so deservedly famous and so great as Julius Caesar. These islands were known to the geographers of an earlier age, and had been visited by mer- chants and other adventurous people, but they were rather the homes of wondrous tales and of romantic legends than treated as parts of the world of which the philosopher or the statesman need take account.