Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Gaius Marius, Caesar's uncle and the husband of Caesar's aunt Julia.He was an enemy of Sulla and took the city with Lucius Cornelius Cinna in 87 BC. Gaius Julius Caesar was born into a patrician family, the gens Julia, on 12 July 100 BC. [5]
The Mausoleum of Augustus (Latin: Mausoleum Augusti; Italian: Mausoleo di Augusto) is a large tomb built by the Roman Emperor Augustus in 28 BC on the Campus Martius in Rome, Italy.
Coin of Pescennius Niger, a Roman usurper who claimed imperial power AD 193–194. Legend: IMP CAES C PESC NIGER IVST AVG. While the imperial government of the Roman Empire was rarely called into question during its five centuries in the west and fifteen centuries in the east, individual emperors often faced unending challenges in the form of usurpation and perpetual civil wars. [30]
Julius Caesar lived in a family home in the Suburra until, in 63 BC, he was elected pontifex maximus at the age of 37. The Suburra had grown up around the property many years before his birth. The Suburra had grown up around the property many years before his birth.
The Tusculum portrait, also called the Tusculum bust, is the only extant portrait of Julius Caesar which may have been made during his lifetime. [1] It is also one of the two accepted portraits of Caesar (alongside the Chiaramonti Caesar) which were made before the beginning of the Roman Empire. [2]
Fictional 15th-century depiction of Julius Caesar's birth. The career of Julius Caesar before his consulship in 59 BC was characterized by military adventurism and political persecution. Julius Caesar was born on 12 July 100 BC into a patrician family, the gens Julia, which claimed descent from Iulus, son of the legendary Trojan prince Aeneas ...
Birth of Caesar to Aurelia; illustration from the medieval Faits des Romains. This image perpetuates the myth that Caesar was born by Caesarean section , a procedure which was always fatal in the ancient world (or performed on pregnant women who were already dead), whereas Aurelia lived for decades after Caesar's birth.
Historians agree in dating to 59 B.C. the foundation of the Roman colony of Florentia. The Liber Coloniarum attributes to a lex Iulia agris limitandis metiundis, wanted by Gaius Julius Caesar, the will to give birth to a new urban system in this part of the Arno valley, where it crossed the river at the height of Ponte Vecchio.