Influential friends managed to have him released, but it was obvious that Caesar would have to leave Rome for a while, in order to let things cool down. But it appears that Sulla chose to spare him, as he did some others. Sulla was dictator of Rome and was seeking to wipe out any Marian sympathizers.Ī nineteen year old Caesar was arrested. Further he began building a network of connections, some of which with politicians currently out of favour (the supporters of Marius).īut these were dangerous contacts to have. His first step was to marry into a yet more distinguished family. Instead Caesar now set out to better himself. 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.
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