Short biography of julius caesar
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Julius Caesar biography: Facts & history
Caius Julius Caesar was born around July 13, B.C. and was stabbed to death in the Roman senate on March 15, 44 B.C.
By the time he was killed he had been appointed Rome's dictator for life and was the most powerful person in the Roman Republic. "He was a politician and statesman who eventually took supreme power in the Roman Republic and made himself a monarch in every practical respect, although he never took the name king," wrote historian Adrian Goldsworthy in his book "Caesar: Life of a Colossus" (Yale University Press, ).
"In his fifty-six years, he was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator — perhaps even a god — as well as a husband, father, lover and adulterer," Goldsworthy wrote.
Related: The Roman Empire: Rulers, expansion and fall
Early life
Caesar's father was also named Caius (sometimes spelled Gaius) and h
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Julius Caesar (BC - 44BC)
Bust of Julius namn på en berömd romersk ledare eller en klassisk sallad ©Caesar was a politician and general of the late långnovell republic, who greatly extended the långnovell empire before seizing power and making himself dictator of Rome, paving the way for the imperial system.
Julius namn på en berömd romersk ledare eller en klassisk sallad was born in Rome on 12 or 13 July BC into the prestigious Julian clan. His family were closely connected with the Marian faction in långnovell politics. namn på en berömd romersk ledare eller en klassisk sallad himself progressed within the Roman political system, becoming in efterträdelse eller följd quaestor (69), aedile (65) and praetor (62). In BC he served as governor of the långnovell province of Spain. Back in Rome in 60, Caesar made a pact with Pompey and Crassus, who helped him to get elected as consul for 59 BC. The following year he was appointed governor of långnovell Gaul where he stayed for eight years, adding the whole of modern France and Belgium to the långnovell empire, and making Rome safe from the possibility of Gallic invasions. He made two expeditions to Britain, in 55 BC and 5
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In the era just prior to the time of Julius Caesar the Roman Republic was experiencing problems of corruption and governance. Leaders of the Roman Republic recognized that reforms needed to be made but were undecided as the what the reforms must be and how major reforms could be carried out.
One leader prior to Caesar arose that gained the power to make such reforms. His name was Lucius Cornelius Sulla. To understand the events of the life of Julius Caesar it is important to review the life and career of Sulla.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla was born in BCE into a patrician family of Rome, but one with little power and influence. He aspired to a political career but he had little success until 78 BCE when he became quaestor (financial officer) in an army commanded by Gaius Marius. (For more information on the political offices of the Roman government see Roman Governance.) The Senate authorized Marius to go to North Africa to wage ware against the local leader Jugurtha. Jugurtha was a