Essay about Biography of Julius Caesar

When he was fifteen years of age, his father passed away, making him the, paterfamilias, leader of his home . He decided that becoming part of the priesthood, would benefit his family. There, he managed to be nominated as the High Priest of Jupiter. Not only did Caesar have to take part in patrician stock, he had to marry a patrician woman. He then became engaged to a woman named Cornelia. Cornelia was daughter of Lucius Cinna, high profile and powerful leader of the Populares . This marriage provoked fury in the, self-declared Dictator, Sulla. He began a methodical elimination of foes and those who held to the Populare ideology. Cornelia’s father was Sulla’s political opponent. Because of this, Sulla targeted Caesar. He commanded that Caesar divorce his wife, or he would lose his property. Caesar refused and fled Rome, but his sentence was lifted intercession of his mother’s family. Regardless, Caesars position as Priest was stripped and his wife’s dowry was impounded.

Calpurnia dreams that Caesar will be murdered and thinks it is foolish. It is a mistake by Caesar to think it is foolish because it foreshadowed his death that eventually happened. His personality got in his own way and ended up costing his life. Caesar ignoring the signs and foreshadows throughout the play ended up costing his own life as his personality got in his own way.

Julius Caesar was born into a patrician family. He was born in July 100 BCE in Italy. His mother, Aurelia Cotta, was of noble birth and his father was Gaius Julius Caesar, a praetor. His family supported the popular party; he had relatives in politics and his uncle is the great Marius and his family 's ancestry goes back to Venus, goddess of love. Julius Caesar’s family connections help him further in his life.

She had been the personal tie between Caesar and Pompey, who were by now already drifting apart. Caesar offered Pompey another wife, his grandniece Octavis. Pompey refused, instead choosing to marry Cornelia Metella, daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Scipio, one of Caesar's greatest enemies in 52 B.C. This emphasized Pompey's drift away from Caesar towards the optimates.

Gaius Julius Caesar, was born in 100 BC, he was the son of a upper-class family. His father’s sister was the wife of General Marius. Caesar married his daughter Cinna, in 76. They had a daughter named Julia. Then, 8 years later she died.

His election into the consul was however not without controversy. There were claims of bribing between the parties involved that tried to get Caesar elected into the senior post in Rome. After being elected into consul, he joined forces with two other wealthy and influential individuals in the empire to form the First Triumvirate. This is further seen in his personal choices of the family he married into. He married off his daughter to Pompey, a member of the First Triumvirate. The members of the First Triumvirate had taken control of much of the state. He was rather forceful in his statements to give out areas of land to the needy; he went further and intimidated the opponents with military use.

became the protector of the Roman people. His backbone of his power was his army but

Julius was guilty of many extramarital affairs - with cleopatra, among others. One of the most significant relations was with Servilia Caepionis, the half-sister of Cato the Younger. It was possible that Brutus was Julius Caesar's son because of this relationship. Julius also had many wifes; Cornelia Cinna minor (m. 84 BC–69 BC), Pompeia (m. 68 BC–63 BC), and Calpurnia (m. 59 BC–44 BC)

	Julius Caesar vacillates, or changes, his mind throughout the play and this downfall is shown to be one of Caesar’s hamartias. On the day Caesar is to go to the Capitol, he changes his decisions frequently. Caesar defies the warnings of Calpurnia and the priests and Caesar says that she, Caesar, shall go forth to the Capitol this day. "Caesar. Caesar shall forth. The things that threatened me Ne’er looked but on my back. When they shall see The face of Caesar, they are vanished." Through this quotation, it seems Caesar has made his mind to go forth to the Capitol. Calpurnia, though, is able to persuade him to stay home and send word that he is sick. Caesar replies, "Caesar. Mark Antony shall say I am not well, And for thy humour I will stay at home."(2,2,55-56) Decius then flatters Caesar and is able to persuade him that Calpurnia’s nightmare is misinterpreted and that he

Pompey and Crassus were consuls in 70 BC and had rescinded the most offensively reactionary measures of Sulla’s legislation. During Pompey’s absence from 67 to 62 BC during his campaigns against the Mediterranean pirates, Mithridates, and Crassus, his jealous rival. Caesar married Ponpeia after Cornelia’s death and was appointed aedile in 65 BC As aedile, Caesar returned to Marius’ trophies to their former place of honor in the Capitol, thus laying claim to leadership of the populares. When Caesar was a praetor, he supported a tribune who wanted Pompey recalled to restore order in Rome. As a result, Caesar was suspended from office for a period and antagonized Catulus. Before leaving Rome to govern Further Spain for a year, Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia because of the allegation that she had been implicated in the offense of Publius Clodius. The latter was then awaiting trial for breaking into Caesar’s house the previous December disguised as a woman at the festival of the Bona Dea, which no man is allowed to attend. After his return from a successful year administrating Spain Caesar was elected consul for 59 BC through political alliance with Pompey and Crassus . This alliance was called the first triumvirate. Caesar’s purpose was to gain a big military command. Pompey for his part sought the ratification of his Eastern settlement and land allotments for his discharged troops. Crassus sought a revision of the contract for collecting taxes in the province of

This would help Caesar in his rise to power when he appealed to the general people rather than the people in the higher rankings. Julius’ father died when he was sixteen years old and was forced to take the head of the household. Needing a profession that would bring aid to the family, Caesar turned to priesthood and found himself as the High Priest of Jupiter. Needing to be married to a patrician, one of higher class, Caesar broke off his marriage to a poor plebeian girl and married a patrician Cornelia, “the daughter of a high profile and influential member of the Populares” named Lucius Cinna. When Sulla became emperor, he targeted all Romans with the Populare ideology. Caesar fled Rome, but his punishment was then put on his family and new wife. With no way to support his family or himself, Caesar joined the army and succeeded greatly. Once Sulla had died, Caesar deemed safe to return to Rome and became an orator in which he also succeeded greatly in. While traveling to Greece in 75 BC, however, Julius Caesar was captured and held captive by pirates, while the pirates found quite a liking to the personable

Gaius Julius Caesar was born on July 13th, 100 B.C. to a poor, Patrician family in Rome (“Julius Caesar”; Gruen 12). For most of his young life, Caesar lived in an apartment type house in one of the poorest districts in Rome. He was a strong student and studied such subjects as oratory, philosophy, and even martial arts. Coming from a family that is believed to have a long

Julius Caesar was born in Rome to a patrician family. Supposedly he was born by a Caesarean Section were he got his namesake, although modern

In around 85 BC, Julius Caesar’s father had died. About a few years later, while Caesar was 18 years old, he married the daughter of a member of the Popular faction in

Caesar was not on the list but he was ordered by Sulla to divorce Cornelia. Caesar refused to do so and left Rome for military service in Asia and Cilicia. He returned in 78 B.C. when Sulla died and began his political career as a prosecuting advocate. At the age of 22 Caesar was unable to gain office and went to Rhodes where he studied rhetoric. During his journey to Rhodes, pirates captured Caesar. While in captivity, Caesar convinced his captors to raise his ransom, which increased his prestige. He then raised a naval force, overcame his captors, and had them crucified. In 73 B.C. he returned to Rome for Rhodes as very persuasive speaker.