Sextus Iulius Caesar (Consul 91 BC)

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Sextus Iulius Caesar (* before 130 BC; † 90 or 89 BC in Asculum ) was a politician of the late Roman Republic and probably the uncle of the dictator Gaius Iulius Caesar . He has held the posts of cursus honorum to the consulate and fought in the Social War against the rebellious allies of Rome. Caesar defeated the Samnites and eventually died in the siege of the city of Asculum.

Sextus Iulius Caesar was born before 130 BC. Born as the son of the Roman patrician Gaius Iulius Caesar. Gaius Iulius Caesar , praetor of the year 92 BC And father of the dictator of the same name, was probably his brother. The influential Lucius Julius Caesar , who lived in 90 BC. Chr. Consul was, and politicians, orators and tragedians Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus were distant relatives (in another reconstruction uncle). 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 Sextus Iulius Caesar, who was related by marriage to Marius, and which led him to the consulate , was by no means exceptional in this context.

Little is known about Caesar's youth and the beginning of his political career. Presumably he held the offices of the cursus honorum in the prescribed order and reached 94 BC at the latest. BC, perhaps together with his relative Lucius, who was about the same age, the praetur. Afterwards he was probably responsible as governor for the administration of a province . In any case, he returned before 91 BC. Back to Rome and was elected consul for that year. These were difficult times for the Roman Empire. His Italian allies had revolted against the supremacy of Rome and thus triggered the war of allies, which was to last for four years and initially was anything but successful for the Roman side. Sextus Iulius Caesar fought against the rebellious Samnites ( Appian , Civil Wars 1, 48 ascribes a victory to him in which he killed 8,000 enemies) and finally died in 90 or 89 BC. At the siege of the city of Asculum . His son or grandson of the same name (historians are not entirely sure here) later became a good friend of Gaius Julius Caesar.

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SURNAME Iulius Caesar, Sextus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caesar, Sextus Iulius; Julius Caesar, Sextus; Caesar, Sextus Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Politician of the late Roman Republic, Uncle Julius Caesar
DATE OF BIRTH before 130 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 90 BC BC or 89 BC Chr.
Place of death Ascoli Piceno