Gaius Julius Caesar in Wikipedia
(ca. 140 BC–85 BC) was a Roman senator, supporter and
brother-in-law of Gaius Marius, and father of Julius Caesar,
the later dictator of Rome.
Caesar was married to Aurelia Cotta, a member the of Aurelii
and Rutilii families, and had two daughters, both named
Julia, and a son, Julius Caesar, born in 100 BC.[1] He was
the brother of Sextus Julius Caesar, consul in 91 BC[2] and
the son of Gaius Julius Caesar.
Caesar's progress through the cursus honorum is well known,
although the specific dates associated with his offices are
controversial. According to two elogiae erected in Rome long
after his death, Caesar was a commissioner in the colony at
Cercina, military tribune, quaestor, praetor, and proconsul
of Asia.[3] The dates of these offices are unclear. The
colony is probably one of Marius' of 103 BC.[4] Broughton
dated the praetorship to 92 BC, with the quaestorship
falling towards the beginning of the 90s.[5] Brennan has
dated the praetorship to the beginning of the decade.[6]
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
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