Caesar: Hero Or Villain

"Epilepsy" or Grand Mal Seizures, sometimes referred to as the falling sickness, are either primary (idiopathic) or secondary to some cerebral injury or disease (strokes, tumors, trauma, abcesses, etc)....Caesar appently never suffered generalized seizures until after visiting Egypt where pork was a more common food source than in Rome...He probably picked up cycsticercosis from the pork (tapeworms that can encyst in the brain).  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysticercosis

"Mini-strokes" (TIAs) are most often caused by severe carotid arteriosclerosis and CAD- very unusual in non-smokers, non-diabetics under the age of 70 or so and show only temporary, transitory neurological deficits. There is no mention of Caesar having any symptoms of paresis or aphasia, so seizures secondary to full strokes are unlikely. Primary seizure disorders usually appear early in life-- childhood- early adulthood.

In regards the original question about Caesar- hero or villian?-- the only obviously correct answer is "maybe." We should never make the mistake of judging aother society by our own modern standards-- that might lead us to think Indigneous Americans were bad people because they ate their own pet dogs when the occasion arose. ....Whether you liked Caesar's influence in bringing "civilization" to western Europe would depend on whether you liked living dressed scantilly in animal furs, bathing in icy cold rivers and starving when game was scarce or not....One cannot read the Commentaries without seeing the obvious parallels in the way of life of the Germanic tribes and the indigenous Americans....If you want to make an omellette, you've got to break a few eggs