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Magistrates held office for one year before joining Rome's powerful advisory council, the Senate. It was a Republic ruled by officials called magistrates (the most senior of which were two consuls) who were elected by assemblies of the people. When Caesar was born in 100BC, Rome ruled much of the Mediterranean. Find out the facts about his rise and fall. Ruthlessly ambitious, Julius Caesar used war, intrigue and political guile to make himself the most powerful man in Rome.

After defeating them he crucified the pirates. They should have heeded his warning, because upon his release, Caesar gathered men and went to find the pirates. He warned these pirates that when freed, he would find them and kill them. Caesar manipulated the pirates and he began to have so much control over them that they would stop talking or making noise upon his demands if he was trying to sleep or read. He told them that they did not know whom they had caught and told them his ransom should have been much more. Arrogant and confident, Caesar mocked them and he laughed at their demands. When he left Asia, pirates captured him and demanded a ransom of 20 talents (Ceasars-might and madness p. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillius wrote, "Not even in the provinces were married women safe from him." In an effort to disprove these rumors Caesar allegedly tried to have an affair with every patrician woman in Rome. Later Caesar's enemies accused him of giving in to Nicomedes's unnatural desires. She was the daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna, therefore, Caesar was associated with the popular party in his early political career.Īt first life was great for him in Rome he was young, well liked, and he had his wife, but soon Caesar heard of Sulla's hostility toward him and he fled to Bythinia, under orders from the praetor of Asia, where he sought to raise a fleet under King Nicomedes, which was his first military campaign, in 81Bc (Caesars-might and madness-Brownjohn p. His first wife was Cornelia whom he married early. He also wrote poetry and became a favorite among the women of Rome. He could declaim and recite poems very well. His uncle by marriage (oxford classical, Hornblower p.925) was the famous military leader and seven times consul, Gaius Marius and in an effort to keep Julius from becoming a great man in the history of Rome, Marius appointed him flamen diales, or priest of Jupiter.Īs a young man, Caesar distinguished himself in roman society. He was born to Gaius Julius Caesar and Aurelia putting him in probably the most prestigious and strong rooted clans, the Julian clan. Julius Caesar was born in Rome on July 12, 100 Bc, and he was assassinated on the ides of March, the 15th of March, in 44Bc. Caesar’s triumph in a civil war in the 40s bc made him the absolute ruler of Rome, but political jealousies among his opponents motivated them to assassinate him. Gaius Julius Caesar, one of the most influential political and military leaders in history, helped establish the vast empire ruled by Rome. Gaius Julius Caesar ( July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC ) Wikipedia Ruler of the Roman Empire, Roman Dictator, (technically not Emperor but sometimes called 1st EMPEROR of Rome), Kejsare, Dictator of Rome (This is THE Julius Caesar immortalized by William Shakespeare, Eerste keizer van Rome (Caesar) Partner of Cleopatra VII Philopator, Pharaoh of Egyptįather of Julia Caesaris and Ptolemy XV 'Caesarion', Pharaoh of Egyptīrother of Julia Caesaris Minor and Julia Caesaris Major Husband of Lucia Calpunia Piso Caesia Cornelia Cinna Minor Cossutia, wife of Caesar Pompeia, wife of Caesar Servilia Caepionis Maior and 1 other and Calpurnia Pisonis « less Son of Gaius Julius Caesar, III and Aurelia Cotta (Assassination by Marcus Junius Brutus, Tillius Cimber, Sevilius Casca and 60 others, stabbed 23 x)

"Divus Julius", "Imperator", "Patris Patriae", "Julius Caesar"