{"id":798,"date":"2026-05-15T07:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/?p=798"},"modified":"2026-04-29T07:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:07:12","slug":"introduction-to-roman-history-1-caesar-is-palpatine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/introduction-to-roman-history-1-caesar-is-palpatine\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Roman History (1): Caesar is Palpatine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this first article in the series of Roman History we will consider the meribound similarities between Julius Caesar and Palpatine from the <em>Star Wars<\/em> universe. The following similarities can be noted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Both Caesar and Palpatine are ambitious political men<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both Caesar and Palpatine start in the <em>senate <\/em>after which they become <em>cancellor<\/em> or <em>consil<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both Caesar and Palpatine have a proteg\u00e9e in the <em>senate<\/em> (Brutus and Annakin)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both Caesar and Palpatine assume <em>dictatorial<\/em> control <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both Caesar and Palpatine command armies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this first article in the series of Roman History we will consider the meribound similarities between Julius Caesar and Palpatine from the Star Wars universe. The following similarities can be noted:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[99,100],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-julius-caesar","tag-roman-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}