Gaius Julius Caesar (governor of Asia)
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Gaius Julius Caesar (/ˈsiːzər/; Latin: [ˈɡaːiʊs ˈjuːliʊs ˈkae̯sar]; c. 140 BC – 85 BC) was a Roman senator, a supporter of his brother-in-law, Gaius Marius, and the father of Roman statesman Julius Caesar.
Biography
Caesar was married to
Caesar's progress through the
Caesar died suddenly in 85 BC, in Rome, while putting on his shoes one morning. Another Caesar, possibly his father, had died similarly in Pisa.[7] His father had seen to his education by one of the best orators of Rome, Marcus Antonius Gnipho.[8] In his will, he left Caesar the bulk of his estate, but after Marius's faction had been defeated in the civil war of the 80s BC, this inheritance was confiscated by the dictator Sulla.[9]
Family
Footnotes
- ^ Plutarch, Caesar 1, 9; Suetonius, Julius 1 Archived 2012-05-30 at archive.today, 74
- ^ Broughton 1952, p. 20.
- ^ Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, 6.1311
- ^ a b Brennan 2001, p. 555.
- ^ Broughton 1952, p. 17.
- ^ Sumner 1978, p. 149.
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History 54.7
- ^ Suetonius, Lives of Eminent Grammarians 7
- ^ Suetonius, Julius 1 Archived 2012-05-30 at archive.today
- ^ Smith 1870, Vol. 1 p. 536 ff.
- ^ Napoleon III 1865, Vol. 1 p. 253
- ^ Wurts 1945, Vol. 4 p. 627
- ^ a b c Meijer 1990, pp. 511/532/576-577
- ^ a b c Kamm 2006, pp. 156-157
- ^ Griffin 2009, p. 13 ff.
References
- ISBN 0-19-511460-4.
- Broughton, T. Robert S. (1952). The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (PDF). Vol. 2. New York: American Philological Association.
- Münzer, Friedrich, "Iulius 130" (in German), Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE, PW), volume X.1 (Stuttgart, 1918), columns 185–186.
- Sumner, G.V. (1978). "Governors of Asia in the Nineties B.C." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. 19 (2): 147–153.