Julius Caesar

The Story of Julius Caesar

It is said that Julius Caesar is a descendant of Prince Aeneas, the prince of Troy, and the birth of Julius Caesar the auspicious was on July 12 or 13 in 100 BC, and the birth of Julius Caesar marked the beginning of a new chapter in Roman history, when he reached the age of 31 years, Julius Caesar had He fought in several wars and became involved in Roman politics. After several alliances, Julius Caesar became dictator of the Roman Empire, and this led to the Senate overthrowing him, and ultimately his assassination by Brutus, his closest people.

Julius Caesar was a politically savvy and popular leader in the Roman Republic, which made Julius Caesar turn it largely into what is known as the Roman Empire, by greatly expanding it through its geographical area and establishing an imperial system in it.

Julius Caesar's family was far from rich, when Julius Caesar was 16 years old, his father Gaius Caesar died, which made Julius Caesar close to his mother, Aurelia, and the conditions of the country at the time were unstable and there was turmoil in the rule of the republic, and soon after the death of his father Julius Caesar made many efforts to stand by the nobility in the country, and his marriage to Cornelia, the daughter of a noble, helped him, and this derived the anger of the dictator of Rome, Sulla, and here he threatened him either to divorce his wife or he would lose all his property, Julius Caesar refused To be part of this bargaining and fled to the army.

After Sulla's death, Julius Caesar returned to Rome to start his career in politics and moved temporarily to Rhodes to study philosophy, and his position was strengthened again in 74 BC, and he formed his own army to attack the king of Pontus, who had declared war on Rome.

When Julius Caesar returned to Rome he began working with Pompey, a former assistant under Sully, who had changed his allegiance after the death of the dictator Sully, and it was not long after Julius Caesar was elected in 68 or 69 BC, and went to work in many Another major government position is with Pompeii.

As for his personal life, a tragedy happened to his wife Cornelia, and he passed away in 69 BC, and after two years he married again, with Pompeia, a relative of Pompey, and their marriage lasted only a few years. In 62 BC the couple separated, and Julius Caesar's political rule, It lasted from 60 to 61 BC, and he served as governor of a Roman province from Spain, and was in close alliance with Pompey, which enabled him to obtain an important position, the position of consul, in the year 59 BC.

Julius Caesar was making a political partnership with Portsmouth, who was the leader of the veteran, and also with Marcus Licinius Crassus, a Roman politician who served courageously during the rule of Sulla, but over the years both Pompey and Crassus became strong competitors, and again Julius Caesar offered His abilities as a negotiator between them and won the confidence of both men and was able to convince them that it is better for them to be allies rather than enemies, and this partnership between the three men came to be known as the First Triumvirate, and this political alliance gave Julius Caesar power and an ideal start to domination.

Not long after, Julius Caesar built a bigger army and began the kind of campaigns that would strengthen his position as one of the greatest leaders ever in Rome. Between 50 and 58 BC, Julius Caesar conquered the rest of Gaul, down to the river. The Rhine, and began to show cruelty to his enemies, so he killed any survivors that remained of them.

At the time he invaded Gaul, Julius Caesar was mindful of the political scene of the homeland, so he hired key political agents to act on his behalf in Rome, but Pompey, began to be jealous of the power and prestige of his political partner, so he hated Caesar's growing stature with such enthusiasm, and after Three years into these events, Crassus was killed in battle in Syria, and at this time Pompey revisited his old concerns about Julius Caesar.

Through a series of events, Julius Caesar eventually went to war against Pompey, which led to Pompey's pact with the gentry against Julius Caesar, and increasingly the gentry became a national threat to Julius Caesar, and civil war became inevitable.

But Pompey and his soldiers were unable to compete with Caesar and his military campaign, and by the end of 48 BC, Julius Caesar was pushing his enemies from Italy and pursued Pompey to Egypt, and returned to Rome and proved his rule an effective role in the reform of Rome,

During this time, and a year before his assassination, Julius Caesar was able to turn Rome into an empire, paying off a lot of debts and working on reforming the Senate by increasing its size, reforming the Roman calendar and reorganizing the local government, in addition to that he created two states, Carthage .And Corinth,

 these countries were completely destroyed by his predecessors, and he granted citizenship to a number of foreigners, and Julius Caesar proved that he was among the good victors, so he invited some of his defeated opponents to join him in the government.

On the other hand, Julius Caesar was keen to consolidate his power, so he asked the Senate to grant him titles and decorations and to allow him to speak for the first time at assembly meetings, and his face became on Roman coins.

Julius Caesar's reforms began to be greatly strengthened with his declining position, but his popularity with the Senate was another issue. Julius’s envy and eagerness for power began to increase, which led to anxiety among a number of politicians who saw Julius Caesar as the king of aspirants.

Julius Caesar's desire to reunite former Roman enemies helped explain his downfall. Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus were former enemies who joined the Senate, and each of the two assassinated Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

Brutus shares this more complex backstory, as he had originally joined with Pompey during the previous civil war in Rome, but then was encouraged to join the government after Julius Caesar's victory, and after the death of Julius Caesar, a power struggle occurred in Rome, which led To the end of the Roman Republic, Julius Caesar soon became a martyr of the new Roman Empire, and within only two years after his death he became the first Roman figure to take the title "The Great King Julius" in the Senate.