![]() ![]() In 62 B.C., with Caesar serving as the “pontifex maximus,” or chief priest of the state government, Pompeia took part in an annual gathering of Roman woman called the Bona Dea (“good goddess”) festival, held at Caesar’s house. Caesar married Pompeia, a granddaughter of Sulla. The couple had a daughter, Julia Caesaris, in 76 B.C.Ĭornelia died in 69 B.C., and in 67 B.C. Eventually, some of Caesar’s influential friends and relatives persuaded Sulla to let Caesar return to Rome, where he was reunited with Cornelia. During his time on the run, he contracted malaria and later was caught by one of Sulla’s men, who forced Caesar to pay him a huge bribe, almost all of his money, in order to remain free. Knowing such defiance could cost him his life, Caesar fled Rome and became a fugitive. As a result, Sulla ordered Caesar to divorce Cornelia, but Caesar refused. Caesar’s father-in-law, Lucius Cornelius Cinna (d. Within several years, a general named Lucius Cornelius Sulla became dictator of the Roman republic and ordered the execution of anyone he considered an enemy of the state. Soon after, he sought revenge against his former captors by commandeering a group of ships and men to help him hunt down and swiftly capture the buccaneers, who he then had executed.Ĭaesar married his first wife, Cornelia, in 84 B.C., when he was a teenager. Eventually, the higher figure was raised and Caesar was freed. When his captors named a ransom price for his release, Caesar thought the number was insultingly low and insisted a greater sum be demanded. However, along the way to Rhodes, Caesar’s ship was hijacked by pirates off the southwestern coast of Asia Minor. In 75 B.C., Caesar, then in his mid-20s, set out from Rome for the Aegean island of Rhodes, a noted center of learning where he planned to study with Apollonius, a Greek rhetorician whose students had included Cicero, who became one of ancient Rome’s most famous orators. New episodes premiere Sundays at 9/8c on HISTORY. WATCH: Full episodes of Colosseum online now. Other origins of the name have been suggested, including the possibility that the founding member of Caesar’s family branch might have had “caesaries,” or long, flowing hair. According to some sources, the origin of the Caesar name is attributable to one of Caesar’s forebears who was “caesus,” (Latin for “cut”) from his mother’s womb.
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