![]() ![]() It was a period of revived hope for popularis politicians: the Sullan oligarchy had proved itself corrupt, and the people's tribunes had regained the powers of which Sulla had stripped them. In 75 bc, sailing to Rhodes to study rhetoric, he was captured by pirates on payment of the ransom, he raised a squadron to defeat them, and had them crucified.Ĭaesar's first public office was the elective military tribunate (probably in 72 bc) in 69 he was quaestor, serving in Spain in 65, curule aedile. He came back to Rome at the news of Sulla's death, and announced his arrival on the political scene with the prosecution (unsuccessful) of a senior senator for extortion. Caesar left Rome to serve in Asia Minor, where he was decorated for bravery in the attack on Mytilene. His relatives successfully pleaded for his life, but the dictator sourly commented ' There are many Mariuses in that boy' ( Life of Caesar). In 82 bc Sulla returned victorious from the east by now Marius and Cinna were both dead, and Caesar went into hiding. ![]() When he was fifteen, his father died the following year Caesar broke off his engagement to a girl from a wealthy equestrian family to marry Cinna's daughter Cornelia ( d. He was twelve when his uncle Marius was driven into exile by Sulla's march on Rome, and thirteen at the time of Marius's vengeful return with Lucius Cornelius Cinna. He had two sisters, married to Quintus Pedius and to Marcus Atius Balbus of Aricia the latter's grandson, adopted in Caesar's will, became the emperor Augustus. Caesar ( 100–44 bc), politician, author, and military commander, was born on 13 Quinctilis (July) 100 bc, probably at Rome, the son of Gaius Julius Caesar, a patrician of old but recently undistinguished family whose brother-in-law was Gaius Marius, and Aurelia, probably daughter of Lucius Aurelius Cotta (consul in 119 bc). ![]()
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