"Big Julie The life and legacy of Julius Caesar"

From First Things, April 2019:

James Boswell, who knew a thing or two about hero worship, called Julius Caesar “the greatest man of any age.” Alexander Hamilton told Thomas Jefferson that Caesar was “the greatest man who ever lived.” Theodor Mommsen, in his History of Rome, called Caesar “the sole creative genius produced by Rome, and the last produced by the ancient world.” Jacob Burckhardt called Caesar “the greatest of mortals.”

That word “greatest,” superlative of all superlatives, has been much overused in our day. Some of us may have first heard it in connection with the Ringling Bros. Circus, “The Greatest Show on Earth.” Tom Brokaw contributed “The Greatest Generation” for those Americans who fought in World War II. Then there was Muhammad Ali who, with characteristic modesty, called himself “The Greatest.” But in our era of easily assigned superlatives, one can’t help but feel how apposite, how comfortably, the word “greatest” sidles up to the name of Julius Caesar—to call him “the greatest” might even be an ­understatement....

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I don't know, Ali was pretty good at what he did: