In a way, he's sort of a precursor to modern day social media influencers. Although being incredibly full of yourself seems to have been going around at the time. Cicero was quite fond of quoting himself to back up an argument.
> In a way, he's sort of a precursor to modern day social media influencers.
He's a precursor to Churchill who wrote "history will be kind to me because I intend to write it". But then again, alexander the great was a precursor to caesar since alexander brought a team of writers with him to write about or invent his great exploits. Alexander was said to bemoan the fact that Odyseus had the great Homer but he himself had no one as great as Homer to write about him. Imagine having a large team of the best greek writers glorifying everything you do and still feeling cheated because none of them is Homer.
From Alexander to Caesar to Churchill to Trump, regardless of whatever else they were and your opinions of them, they were great self-promoters.
