Gaius Iulius Caesar (praetor 92 BC)

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Gaius Iulius Caesar (* around 135 BC; † 85 BC in Pisae ) was a politician of the late Roman Republic and the father of the dictator of the same name . He held the offices of the cursus honorum up to the praetur . His daughter Julia was the grandmother of the first Roman emperor Augustus .

Life

Gaius Iulius Caesar was born around 135 BC. Born as the son of a Roman patrician of the same name . Presumably the consul of the year 91 BC was BC, Sextus Iulius Caesar , his brother. The influential Lucius Julius Caesar , who lived in 90 BC. Was consul, and the politician, speaker and tragedy poet Gaius Iulius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus were distant relatives (according to other reconstructions, uncles). The family of the Iulii Caesares , which traced their origins to Iulus , the son of Aeneas , and thus to the goddess Venus , had achieved political importance during the troubled times after the attempts at reform by the Gracchi and the rise of Gaius Marius . The career of Gaius Julius Caesar, who was married to Aurelia , daughter of Lucius Aurelius Cotta , was by no means exceptional in this context.

Around 100 BC He held the office of quaestor responsible for financial matters , probably 92 BC. He finally reached the praetur , an office that mainly comprised judicial tasks. In the following year he administered as governor of the rich province of Asia in western Asia Minor. During the time of his absence, the situation in Italy changed fundamentally. The war of allies broke out and soon afterwards the tensions between Marius and Sulla, who both claimed command in the fight against King Mithridates of Pontus , erupted in a civil war.

Gaius Iulius Caesar's younger sister Iulia was married to Marius, while his relatives Lucius Iulius Caesar and Gaius Iulius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus supported Sulla. Lucius and Caesar Strabo fell in 87 BC. In the fight against the troops of his brother-in-law, Sulla later succeeded in driving the followers of Marius out of Rome. Gaius Iulius Caesar died in 85 BC. In Pisae a natural death before he could reach the consulate. His son of the same name, with whose upbringing he had entrusted the famous speaker Marcus Antonius Orator , would later become the first man in Rome. His daughter Julia later became the grandmother of Augustus , whom his son adopted in his will.

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SURNAME Iulius Caesar, Gaius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caesar, Gaius Iulius; Julius Caesar, Gaius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician, father of the dictator of the same name
DATE OF BIRTH around 135 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 85 BC Chr.
Place of death Pisa