Plutarch's Life of Caesar: Excerpts + Questions + Key

Give your students a chance to explore one of the most important ancient sources related to the life of Caesar. The included excerpts from Plutarch's Life of Caesar focus on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey. Guided questions keep students on task and lead them to analyze the question: Was Caesar a tyrant? This packet serves as an excellent precursor to a study of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. 

This download includes the following:

• 6 page reading packet of excerpts from Life of Caesar
• 30-question reading guide
• Key

Episodes Covered

• Caesar's campaigns in Gaul
• Caesar overcomes the Nervii
• Caesar betrayed by Pompey
• Caesar crosses the Rubicon
• War against Pompey
• The Death of Pompey
• Caesar spares his enemies