He is widely regarded as a pre-eminent military genius.Ĭaesar’s exploits made him popular with his soldiers and ordinary people back in Rome. The historian Plutarch claimed that Caesar’s army fought over 3 million men, of which 1 million were killed, and approximately 800 cities were destroyed in the campaign. Despite, facing forces with greater numbers of men, the superior military capabilities and tactics of the Romans enabled Caesar to make a dramatic expansion of the Roman Empire. It included modern-day France, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany and as far north as Britain. Over the next seven years, Caesar led his armies to conquer large areas of Europe. Instead, he was given command over Roman armies in northern Italy, southern France and southeastern Europe. However, this was opposed by many other senators. In 59 BC, Caesar was elected Consul to the Roman Senate, where he proposed a law to redistribute lands to the poor. Surrender of Gallic chieftains after the Battle of Alesia (52 BC) He worked as an advocate and became known for his powerful oratory. His inheritance was stripped from Caesar, leaving him with little money. He gained a good education, but when he was 16 his father died, and it left Caesar in a difficult position due to an ongoing civil war which made his family a target. Gaius Julius Caesar was born into a noble family with a long pedigree of serving the Roman Republic. He was succeeded by his adopted son Augustus Caesar who consolidated the gains of his father. He was murdered by senators on the Edes of March. Caesar’s dictatorship and cult of personality moved Rome from a republic to an autocratic state. Caesar also launched a coup against the failing Senate, and after a civil war set himself up as sole ruler and dictator. This significantly expanded the Roman Empire and accelerated the diffusion of Roman culture, into western Europe. At age 12 Octavius, her youngest grandson, the future Emperor Augustus, delivered her funeral oration.Julius Caesar was a Roman general who conquered vast areas of land in the region of Gaul. īalbus died in 52 BC and Julia died a year later. Sons of the consul in 10 were Appius Junius Silanus (consul in 28), Decimus Junius Silanus (who was involved in the disgrace of Julia the Younger) and Marcus Junius Silanus ( consul suffectus in 15). This Atia was the mother of Gaius Junius Silanus who became consul in AD 10. Īnother Atia, who may have been her granddaughter through her son (probably from a marriage to a Claudia) may have been married to Gaius Junius Silanus. Her youngest daughter was the wife of Lucius Marcius Philippus, and they had a daughter named Marcia. The second daughter was the mother of Octavia Minor (fourth wife of triumvir Mark Antony) and of Romes first Emperor Augustus. Julia bore him three (or two, according to other sources) daughters and possibly a son named Marcus Atius Balbus. Julia married Marcus Atius Balbus, a praetor and commissioner who came from a senatorial family of plebeian status. Caesar divorced Pompeia over the scandal. Julia and her mother gave the legal courts a detailed account of the affair he had with Pompeia, Julius Caesar's wife. It is not known if it was the elder or the younger of the dictator's sisters who gave evidence against Publius Clodius Pulcher when he was impeached for impiety in 61 BC. She was an elder sister of the dictator Julius Caesar, and the maternal grandmother of Rome's first emperor Augustus.īiography Bona Dea scandal Julia Minor (before 100 BC – 51 BC) was the second of two daughters of Gaius Julius Caesar and Aurelia.
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