History of Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar








100 BC - 44 BC

Childhood

Gaius Julius Caesar was born into an aristocrat family of Rome. At the age of 17 he married Cornelia the daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna , when Sulla ordered him to divorce her, he refused. He left for Greece to study and was later pardoned....

When Caesar was a young boy he had to escape the wrath of the dictator Sulla. This man had taken all power to defend the Republic and tried to purge the state from its enemies. Caesar was eventually pardoned, but Sulla did have an astonishing foresight he predicted that the stubborn boy would become dangerous. Caesar was the last descendant of the ancient clan of the Julii, but although they were patricians and intermarried with other senatorial families, they were totally impoverished (for patrician standards that is). He was educated in rhetoric,philosophy and law, like other patricians. But after his near brush with death did the eighteen year old youth decide to enter t...