Perhaps no other man in the history of the world symbolizes military and political strength as much as does Gaius Julius Caesar. This man became a legend for his military exploits and an almost global setting, his political manipulations which covered decades of cycles which covered power and loss of power, and his personal life which to have been played in the most melodramatic and theatrical manner. It is Caesar whose life, betrayal , and death which have been immortalized in history and in literature. Caesar who is the focal point of Shakespeare's most famous history play the life cycle of Julius Caesar falls into an obvious organizational scheme. His early life was spent the training period for his rise to political power; his middle life was devoted to the obtaining and consolidation of power, and his death was the final contribution to studies of power and its affect on man kind.
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Bust of Gaius Julius Caesar in the National Archae...
English: A statue of the first Roman Emperor Augus...The Early Life of Julius Caesar is a classical study of the history of power and wealth in early Rome. Caesar was born on July 12, 100 BC. His father belonged to the prestigious Julian clan. His uncle by marriage was Gaius Marius, leader of the Populares which supported agrarian reform and was opposed by the reactionary Optimates. Marius saw to it that Julius Caesar was appointed flamen dialis which is a archaic priesthood with no power. Caesar marriage in 84 BC to Cornelia, the daughter of Marius's associate was a political match. When Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Marius's enemy and leader of the Optimates, was made dictator in 82 BC, he issued a list of enemies to be executed. Caesar was not harmed but he was ordered by Sulla to divorce Cornelia. Caesar refused that order and left Rome he did not return until Sulla's resignation in...