Julius Caesar Research Paper

Julius Caesar, whose full name is Gaius Julius Caesar, was born in Rome on July 12, 100 B.C.E. He was in a aristocratic family. His father was Gaius Julius Caesar, a Praetor who controlled the province of Asia and his mother was Aurelia Cotta. The family was not wealthy, but it was a well known household. When Julius Caesar was sixteen years old, his father died on 85 B.C.E. and Julius became the head of the family. During this time, Rome was very unstable with a civil war. The civil war was between his uncle Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla. Rome also couldn’t handle the size of the land and citizens. Caesar realized that money was the solution to going into the Roman politics and made an effort to support the country’s nobility.

A few years later, he became engaged to a wealthy young woman named Cossutia, but later broke off the engagement and married Cornelia. The reason he married Cornelia is because as a priest, he had to marry a patrician or a person in a high rank. Cornelia’s father, Lucius Cornelius Cinna, was a very wealthy, influential, noble member of the Populares. He was also the biggest ally of Marius, Caesar’s uncle. Caesar and Cornelia later have a daughter, who is the only legitimate child. The civil war between Julius’ uncle and Sulla ended with Lucius Sulla as the victor and dictator. Sulla started to punish all his enemies and his next target was Julius Caesar. The Roman dictator ordered Julius to divorce Cornelia but he refused escaped Rome by entering into the