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Source # 2 Database: ONLINE DATABASE Name: Sarah Ricketts Per.1 Author Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Name of Publication. Publication City: Publishing House, Year Published. Name of Database. School Name. Web. Date Accessed. Build your own: "Caesar, Julius (102 B.C.-44 B.C.)." DISCovering Biography. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Student Resource Center - Bronze. Web. 14 May 2010. Notes: Copy and paste key passages or paragraphs. Response: Paraphrase, ask questions or clarify 102 B.C.-44 B.C. Born: July 13, 102 B.C. in Rome Died: March 15, 44 B.C. in Rome Nationality: Roman. Occupation: leader. Gaius Julius Caesar. Born on July 13, 102 B.C.; murdered on March 15, 44 B.C.; married: Cornelia (daughter of Cinna), 84 B.C.; married: Pompeia (granddaughter of Sulla), 67 B.C. (divorced 62 B.C.). Descendant: Augustus, first emperor of the Roman Empire. Julius Caesar was the military and political leader of Rome who brought about the end of the Roman Republic and laid the foundations for the Roman Empire. Gaius Julius Caesar was born into one of the original patrician (upper-class) families of Rome. Although aristocratic, the family was of modest means and relatively undistinguished in political and military accomplishment. Caesar refused, however, and chose to avoid arrest by hiding in the Sabine country. During this period, Caesar contracted malaria. In his absence, his mother's family interceded with Sulla, gaining a pardon for him, after which he returned to Rome and became a soldier. Gaius Julius Caesar was born on July 13, 102 B.C. in Rome; married to Cornelia (daughter of Cinna) in 84 B.C.; then married to Pompeia (granddaughter of Sulla) in 67 B.C. and divorced in 62 B.C. His descendant was Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. To the people’s astonishment, Julius Caesar died in Rome on March 15, 44B.C. Bringing an end to the Roman Republic, Julius Caesar set the foundations for the Roman Empire and brought the Roman people a new outlook on society. Julius Caesar was born into one of the original upper-class families of Rome. His family, being aristocratic, was reserved and rather ordinary in political and military achievement. In cause to disobey the dictator Sulla, Caesar chose to shun arrest by hiding in the Sabine country. Not long after, Caesar soon got malaria. During his nonattendance, his mother’s family succeeded in gaining a pardon for him. Later, he returned to Rome and became a soldier. As the son of a senator, Caesar immediately became an officer and was assigned to the staff of Marcus Minucius Thermus, the propraetor (governor) of the Roman province of Asia With such freespending ways, Caesar did not shrink from bribing officials and the voters of Rome. Seeing that he was son of a senator, Caesar instantaneously became an officer and was assigned to the staff of Marcus Minucius Thermus, the governor of the Roman province of Asia. With the desire to be elected, Caesar bribed the officials and the voters of Rome. In 73 B.C., the Romans elected Caesar one of the 24 military tribunes, his first elected office. Elected quaestor (junior magistrate) in 69 B.C., he Being his first elected office, Caesar was voted one of the 24 gave public funeral orations honoring his recently deceased aunt Julia and military tribunes in 73 B.C. Next he was elected junior magistrate his wife Cornelia. in 69 B.C. Around the same time, he gave a public funeral in honor of his recently deceased aunt Julia and his wife Cornelia. Seeing the tide of politics change, Caesar allied himself with Considering the favor of politics had readjusted, Caesar married Marcus Licinius Crassus, reputed to be the wealthiest man in Pompeia, the granddaughter of Sulla, associating himself with Rome, and married Pompeia, the granddaughter of Sulla. Marcus Licinius Crassus, said to be the richest man in Rome. In the following year, when the women's religious ritual honoring In 62 B.C., the women’s religious ritual honoring the goddess of the Bona Dea (goddess of chastity and fertility) was held at chastity and fertility was held at Caesar’s home. Caesar caught Caesar's home, Publius Clodius Pulcher committed sacrilege by Publius Clodius Pulcher as he committed sacrilege by witnessing witnessing the ceremonies disguised as a woman. As a result of the ceremonies disguised as a woman. As an effect, Caesar this scandal, Caesar divorced Pompeia saying, according to divorced Pompeia and according to Suetonius to have said, “I Suetonius, "I maintain that the members of my family should be maintain that the members of my family should be free from free from suspicion as well as from accusation." suspicion as well as from accusation."