Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman military and political leader. He played an important part in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Caesar was born in Rome into a well-known patrician family, which supposedly traced its ancestry to Julus, the son of the Trojan prince Aeneas.Caesar was elected quaestor, who supervised the treasury and financial affairs of the state, its armies and its officers, by the Assembly of the People in 70 BC, at the age of 30, as stipulated in the Roman cursus honorum (Wikipedia, Para 3).Caesar made his way to praetorship by 62 BC and many of the senate felt him a dangerous, ambitious man. Because ...view middle of the document...
He was the first living man to appear on a Roman Publican coins.In the last five years of his life, Caesar prevailed in Civil Wars in Asia and Spain, conquered Egypt, rose to undreamed-of power in the Roman state, rent the fabric of the mos maiorum, was honored like a god for the first time in Roman history, and murdered by his closest associates when they believed he sought the power in name which he already held in fact (Cross, Conspiracy & Death)When Caesar died in 44 BC, a great comet soon troubled the skies over Rome. No more superstitious people ever lived. Even those who had bitterly opposed him and murdered him outside Pompey's Theater were awed by the implications when the heavens themselves "blazed forth the death of princes."(Cross, Introduction)"...a man, who had become strongly committed to the popular cause and highly experienced in the exercise of power, was murdered in the senate-house by Brutus and Cassius out of jealousy of his immense power and out of longing for the traditional constitution. The people in fact missed him more than they had anyone else; they went round hunting for his killers, gave him a funeral in the middle of the forum, built a temple on the site of the pyre, and still sacrifice to him as a god."(Cross, Conspiracy & Death (Appian, 1, 4.)).References:http://www.iol.ie/~coolmine/typ/romans/romans6.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesarhttp://heraklia.fws1.com/introduction/Index.html
