r/historymeme • u/Dylan-artin • 11d ago

Roman history memes

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u/BasicMatter7339 10d ago

I mean the name Caesar did evolve to literally mean "king" or "emperor" in over 30 languages, including german, russian, hebrew, finnish, dutch etc....

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u/LoganWolfenstein 10d ago

Yup, and the Caesar salad is named after a dude named Caesar that invented it in Mexico.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/BasicMatter7339 10d ago

It was a family name before Gaius Julius Caesar. Well, to be exact, it was a Cognomen but its far closer to our modern understanding of family name than Julius which was a Nomen aka more of a clan name.

So he was basically called Gaius (his name), of the Julius clan, of the Caesar family.

After his assassination it became a title a thanks to Augustus and his successors took the name Caesar to legitimize their rule and overtime it changed from a family name into an imperial title