"Unos gritaban que era a la tiranía a lo que César aspiraba” (Caes. 6.3): interés personal, transgresión del nómos y perjuicio de la eleuthería en la Vida de César de Plutarco

A recurring concern for the behavior of statesmen is identified in the Parallel Lives of Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 45 AD - c. 125 AD). The ways in which the biographies conduct themselves place before the reader different types of political figures related to individual powers. Among them, the figures of both the basileus and the tyrant occupy recognizable places, and the latter seems to be a negative model of a statesman. In this regard, the paper will analyze the presentation of personal power in paragraphs 1 and 4 of the Life of Caesar along with the author’s characterization of tyranny (Caes. 6, 33, 57) and, consequently, of the tyrant. From here, the notions of nomos (Caes. 6) and eleutheria (Caes. 33) expressed by Plutarch will be studied, as well as the relationship established between these and tyranny as a form of government. To this end, the focus will be on the lexicon and the writing resources employed by the pepaideumenos.