When, Caesar was fifteen years old, his father Lucius died, with him died the fatherly expectations that Caesar should engage on a modest political career. Already at a young age he had realized that money was the key to Roman politics as the system had by his time long been corrupt. However, Caesar was not like other Romans. The Social Wars created turmoil all over Italy and Marius and Sulla were the great leaders of the time.Īs a member of an old aristocratic family Julius was expected, at the completion of his education, to assume a modest office on the lower end of the long ladder of the Roman political career. The increased size of the empire had led to cheap slave labour flooding into the country which in turned made many Roman workers unemployed. Caesar’s early LifeĬaesar grew up in a period of unrest and civil war in Rome. He was embarrassed by his baldness, which was a frequent subject of jokes on the part of his opponents so much so that he used to comb his straggling locks forward from the back, and of all honours heaped upon him by senate and people, the one he most appreciated was to be able to wear a wreath at all times…. The historian Suetonius writes about Julius Caesar: ![]() though he did suffer from the occasional epileptic fit. Married initially to Cornelia (one daughter, Julia), then to Pompeia, alas to Calpurnia.Ĭaesar was tall, fair-haired, well built and of sound health.Appointed dictator for ten years in 47 B, for life on 14 February 44 BC. ![]() On the Senate floor, undefended by the remaining part of the Senate, he pulled his cape on his body and slipped from life to death and from there to fame. It is believed that only the second stab was mortal. He probably was and we believe that Caesar was convinced about that too and so, that’s when Caesar chose to surrender himself to the assaulters and as legend has it, 23 stabs were planted on Caesar. A bumbling and clumsy man, he will also stab his own hand in the attack, Brutus was believed to be Caesar’s illegitimate son. He recognized the attackers but it was Brutus who he really spotted. Caesar may have tried to react by drawing his own knife. The coward senators hid behind their seats, maybe some even took the exit. The frozen Senate, sitting there with no executive powers, had hard feelings against the dictator and, consequently, an unspecified group, 40, maybe 60 senators, wrapped around Caesar and began attacking him. He had hearings on that day, and some decisions to make including a military campaign. A group of Senators conspired to kill Caesar on the Ides of March, 44 BC. With his power also came the hate from the same people he had somehow sidelined. The final rank attained was that of “dictator”, supreme military leader of the Republic. He was supported by the people and the military and, as a result, Caesar decided to deprive the Senate by leading his troops in, taking over power. A great strategist, successful campaign commander (think of the Gaul population), He also rose in political ranks, including praetor, maximum pontiff, and consulship. Once he found a way, he moved on to a long military career. Aurelia Cotta was a descendant of the 3rd King of Rome, Anco Marzio.Ĭaesar brushed against the leading oligarchy, incarnated in corrupt individuals like Lucius Cornelius Sulla so, as a result, Caesar had to find a way to survive the vengeful Sulla. His mother had equally prestigious origins. That was considered a powerful weapon to use for political reasons. ![]() His father, who died young, was a mid-ranking official, but who could claim direct descendance from Aeneas and so from Venus. Caesar was born about year 100 BC, on the Ides of July (the 13th). Not the best part of town because it was actually a fairly poor neighborhood. Born in what today would be the 1st District of Rome, the Monti Region, specifically in the ancient Suburra. Suburra Wall – Caesar’s childhood home could have been anywhere starting to the right of the wall.
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