Julius Caesar

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• Julius Caesar

  • Julius Caesar was a Late Republic statesman and general who waged civil war against the Roman Senate, defeating many patrician conservatives before he declared himself dictator.
  • Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general, statesman, consul, and notable author of Latin prose.
  • Caesar made the initial overtures that led to the informal alliance.
  • Caesar used his powers to fill the Senate with his own partisans.
  • Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general, statesman, consul, and notable author of Latin prose.

• Founding of the Roman Empire

  • Augustus rose to power after Julius Caesar's assassination through a series of political and military maneuvers, eventually establishing himself as the first emperor of Rome.
  • Following the assassination of his maternal great-uncle Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, Caesar's will named Octavian as his adopted son and heir when Octavian was only 19 years old.
  • Octavian found Mark Antony, Julius Caesar's former colleague and the current consul of Rome, in an uneasy truce with Caesar’s assassins who had been granted general amnesty for their part in the plot.
  • Nonetheless, Antony eventually succeeded in driving most of them out of Rome, using Caesar’s eulogy as an opportunity to mount public opinion against the assassins.
  • Octavian allied himself with optimate factions, despite their opposition to Caesar when he was alive.

• Roman Sculpture under the Republic

  • Finally, in the closing decades of the Republic, Julius Caesar counteracted traditional propriety by becoming the first living person to place his own portrait on a coin.
  • The portraits of Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar, two political rivals who were also the most powerful generals in the Republic, began to change the style of the portraits and their use.
  • The portraits of Julius Caesar are more veristic than those of Pompey.
  • Despite staying closer to stylistic convention, Caesar was the first man to mint coins with his own likeness printed on them.
  • Portrait of Julius Caesar on a denarius.

• Alliteration

• The Founding of Rome

  • The Aeneid also gives mythic legitimization to the rule of Julius Caesar, and by extension, to his adopted son Augustus, by immortalizing the tradition that renamed Aeneas’s son Iulus, making him an ancestor to the family of Julius Caesar.

• The Pax Romana

  • During the First Settlement, Augustus modified the Roman political system to make it more palatable to the senatorial classes, eschewing the open authoritarianism exhibited by Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony.
  • At this time, Augustus was given honorifics that made his full name Imperator Caesar divi filius Augustus.
  • The use of Caesar provided a link between himself and Julius Caesar, who was still very popular among lower classes.

• The Julio-Claudians

  • Augustus, originally known as Octavian, was Julius Caesar's great nephew and was adopted by Caesar as his son and heir.
  • Following Caesar's assassination in 44 BCE, Octavian was thrust into a civil war with competing generals and Senators for power over the large but unstable Roman empire.
  • Augustus's adoption by Caesar established the method succession used by the emperors throughout Imperial Rome.

• Dates and Calendars

  • The Roman calendar was reformed by Julius Caesar in 45 BCE.
  • Julius Caesar realized that the system had become inoperable, so he effected drastic changes in the year of his third consulship.

• The Seven Kings

  • This new government would survive for the next 500 years until the rise of Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus and cover a period in which Rome's authority and area of control extended to cover great areas of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

• Crises of the Republic

  • Julius Caesar returned from his governorship in Spain a year later and, along with Crassus, established a private agreement with Pompey known as the First Triumvirate.
  • When Caesar became consul, he saw the passage of Pompey’s arrangements through the Senate, at times using violent means to ensure their passage.
  • Caesar also facilitated the election of patrician Publius Clodius Pulcher to the tribunate in 58 BCE, and Clodius sidelined Caesar’s senatorial opponents, Cato and Cicero.
  • Though the triumvirate was briefly renewed in the face of political opposition for the consulship from Domitius Ahenobarbus, Crassus’s death during an expedition against the Kingdom of Parthia and the death of Pompey’s wife Julia, who was also Caesar’s daughter, severed any remaining bonds between Pompey and Caesar.
  • Caesar presented an ultimatum to the Senate on January 1, 49, which was ultimately rejected.