Examples of Julius Caesar in the following topics:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 portraits and their use.
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- Julius Caesar, dictator perpetuo and considered to be instrumental in the transition from Republic to Empire, adopted Gaius Octavius, who would become Augustus, Rome's first emperor.
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- Diocletian delegated further in 293, appointing Galerius and Constantius as caesars, junior co-emperors.
- They in turn appointed two new Caesars — Severus II in the west under Constantius, and Maximinus in the east under Galerius — thereby creating the second Tetrarchy.
- Their Caesares, Galerius and Constantius Chlorus, were both raised to the rank of Augustus, and two new Caesares were appointed: Maximinus (Caesar to Galerius) and Flavius Valerius Severus (Caesar to Constantius).
- The council agreed that Licinius would become Augustus in the West, with Constantine as his Caesar.
- In the East, Galerius remained Augustus and Maximinus remained his Caesar.