Julius Caesar was a big time mass murderer. He went through Gaul, present day France, wiping out entire tribes of Celts. I wonder how many bards, songs, and poems he wiped out in the process just to enhance his own status back in Rome? Then he used his status to get control of government wiping out what little representative government was left in Rome. That stuff about living and dying by the sword applies to him? Why do we make heros out of dictators and generals?