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The most famous Roman of them all was never himself Emperor. But Julius Caesar’s military and political domination of Rome – as popular general, consul and finally dictator – made the switch from republican to imperial government possible.
Born to power
Caesar was born into the Roman political ruling class, on 12 or 13 July 100 BC.
He was named Gaius Julius Caesar, like his father and grandfather before him.
Both had been republican officials, but the Julian clan’s greatest link to high power when Julius was born was through marriage. Caesar’s paternal aunt was married to Gaius Marius, a giant of Roman life and seven times consul.
Historian and archaeologist Simon Elliott answers the key questions surrounding one of history's most compelling figures - Julius Caesar.
Watch NowCaesar learned early that Roman politics was bloody and factional.
When Gaius Marius was overthrown by the dictator Sulla, the Republic’s new ruler came after his vanquished foe’s fami