The Enduring Legacies of Caesar

I tried to dig out a few enduring cultural legacies of Caesar…

1. C-Section: Caesar’s mother didn’t die giving birth to him. So the belief that he was born by a cesarean surgery has been widely discredited. Despite this, the association gave his name to the procedure.
2. The Ides of March: referred to the 15th day of March. Caesar was assassinated on this date in 44BC.
3. Crossing the Rubicon: Caesar’s decision to lead his army across the Rubicon River in 49 BC, to confront Pompey’s attempts to strip him of power, triggered the Civil War. Today, the phrase “crossing the Rubicon” has become an idiom for taking an irrevocable step from which there is no turning back.
4. Julian Calendar and July: After his return from Egypt, he modifies the Roman calendar and brings in the leap year concept. July gets named after him too.
5. ‘Caesar, Kaiser and Tsar’: Caesar becomes a generic term for dictator/emperor in Rome after his death. This eventually gets adopted in German and Russian as Kaiser and Tsar.
6. In Literature, before Shakespeare immortalized him, Caesar featured in Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’.  
7. Without Caesar, there would have been no Asterix
8. Et tu, Brute: One of Shakespeare’s most famous lines signifying betrayal.
9. Veni, vidi, vici: “I came, I saw, I conquered” . Caesar’s immortal line was from a report he sent to the Senate after one of his swift campaigns in modern-day Turkey
10. “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s”: In the New Testament, Jesus is asked to give his opinion on whether taxes need to be paid to the Roman emperor. The intent was to put him in a dilemma. A “yes” would brand him a collaborator with the occupiers, while a “no” would make him a rebel in the eyes of Rome. Christ sidesteps it with a sledgehammer of a response! The Caesar here was Tiberius since this happened almost 74 years after Caesar’s death.
11. “Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion”: The Bona Dea (Good Goddess) festival was once hosted at Caesar’s house. Clodius, a politician, breaks into the house disguised as a woman in an alleged attempt to seduce Caesar’s wife Pompeia. He gets caught and despite no evidence of Pompeia’s involvement, Caesar divorces her and mouths this famous line, which is now commonly used in politics and in the courts.
12. Cleopatra: Without Caesar chasing Pompey to Rome, Cleopatra would have been an unknown sister of King Ptolemy. Her dramatic entry to Caesar’s camp rolled in a carpet/laundry bag, their love story, she giving birth to Caesar’s only son, her eventual affair with Marc Antony leading to their double-suicide, can all be traced back to the chain of events Caesar set into motion.
13. Mantegna’s ‘The Triumphs of Caesar’: were a series of nine paintings recreating the triumphs granted to Julius Caesar for his conquests in Gaul. One can literally” hear the trumpets and smell the dung” in these paintings.
14. Caesar Complex: The psychological drive for absolute power and authoritarianism.
15. Caesar Salad: This one has nothing to do with Julius Caesar. It was invented by an Italian immigrant restaurateur Caesar Cardini in 1924.

Have I missed any?