JULIUS HISTORICAL BACKGROUND GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR CAESAREAN SECTION AURELIA GAIUS JULIUS HIS FAMILY PATRICIAN NEITHER RICH AUNT JULIA THE WIFE GAIUS MARIUS LEADER THE POPULAR 85 BCE FATHER YEARS LATER BETROTHED MARRIED WEALTHY YOUNG COSSUTIA BETROTHAL SOON BROKEN AGE 18 DAUGHTER MEMBER BORE LEGITIMATE CHILD OPTIMATE CAESAR DIVORCE SULLA PROSCRIBED FRIENDS EVENTUALLY 79 BCE THE STAFF MILITARY AWARDED CIVIC CROWN SAVING THE LIFE CITIZEN IN BATTLE GENERAL SENT EMBASSY THE KING FLEET SUBSEQUENTLY THE BUTT GOSSIP PERSUADED TO SLEEP DIED ROME CAREER ELOQUENT 75 BCE SAILING GREECE KIDNAPPED CILICIAN PIRATES WORTH JOKING RELATIONSHIP THE PIRATES THE MONEY TRACK DOWN CRUCIFIED THE HELP WARNING CUT THROATS LESSEN SUFFERING 72 BCE POMPEY CONSULS 70 BCE 69 BCE SPOKE FUNERALS CONNECTIONS MARIUS THE ANCIENT NOBILITY FIRST KINGS THE GODS TALENT CONCEPTION SOMETHING QUAESTOR SEAT THE SENATE GNAEUS POMPEY HELPED EXTRAORDINARY GENERALSHIP MEDITERRANEAN COMMAND THE WAR KING MITHRIDATES ASIA MINOR CURULE AEDILE SPENT GAMES POPULAR LOANS EXPENDITURES RUMORS AFFAIR WIVES 63 BCE PONTIFEX MAXIMUS IN 62 DIVORCED POMPEIA SCANDAL THE MAN ACQUITTED THE LAW REPORTED WIFE MUST ABOVE SUSPICION ANYONE HAD TO BE FREE HINT THE PROVINCE FURTHER SPAIN PROPRAETOR 60 BCE SPAIN LOOSE COALITION MODERN FIRST TRIUMVIRATE ENEMIES VICTORIOUS RATIFY GRANT VETERAN SOLDIERS ARMY RETURN BLOCKING WORK PROMISED SUPPORT CONSULSHIP 59 BCE CONSUL HEAVY OPPOSITION MARCUS PORCIUS CONSERVATIVE HIMSELF LEADING PUSHED TERM PROCONSUL GAUL THE ASSEMBLY COWED COLLEAGUE BIBULUS THE YEAR SAFE PROSECUTION ONCE PRIVATE PROSECUTED 58 BCE LEFT THE COURSE CONQUER CENTRAL OPENING LANDS MEDITERRANEAN CIVILIZATION IN WORLD CONQUEST ACT OF AGGRESSION PERSONAL AMBITION CONQUESTS OF ALEXANDER FIGHTING CISALPINE GAUL WINTERS ROMAN POLITICS SUPPORTERS GALLIC 56 BCE RENEW INCREASINGLY MOVING TOWARD WERE TO 49 BCE EXPEDITION TO BRITAIN ROMAN CROSSING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL PERMANENT JULIA CHILDBIRTH ARMIES THE EAST 52 BCE ELECTION LITTLE BOND CAESAR AND POMPEY ALWAYS EAGER THE FAVOR THE ARISTOCRATS 51 BCE THE CONQUEST OF GAUL EFFECTIVELY EFFICIENT PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION GOVERN VAST PUBLISHED THE GALLIC WARS OPTIMATES ATTEMPTED SHORT GOVERNOR OF CLEAR IMMEDIATELY WANTED RUN IN ABSENTIA PUBLIC YIELD THE OTHER LOSS TRIED POSITION PUSHED TO THE LIMIT THE RUBICON RIVER BORDER AUTOMATIC CIVIL LEGIONS BRUNDISIUM QUICKLY ADVANCED RUMP SENATE POLICY CLEMENCY NO ONE DEATH UNEXPECTED PREVENT ALLEGEDLY MEET SHALL THUS LEGALIZING 48 BCE FACTION STRONG SUFFICIENT SHIPS TRANSPORT CROSSED LEAVING CHIEF MARK THE REST RATHER SITUATIONS FINALLY OUTNUMBERED THE FINAL BATTLE PHARSALUS BRILLIANT THE TOLL PARDONED ROMAN CITIZENS NO MORE LEGIONARIES PROFESSED THE HEAD BETRAYED EGYPTIANS SESTERCES PREVIOUS PTOLEMY XII FLUTE PLAYER REVOLT RULE PTOLEMY THE THRONE CLEOPATRA VII PTOLEMY XIII JOINT THE EUNUCH POTHINUS THE EGYPTIAN ACHILLAS ACTING BEHALF THIS TIME RECENTLY DRIVEN CLEOPATRA OF ALEXANDRIA HERSELF SMUGGLED PALACE ALEXANDRIA WRAPPED RUG GIFT ENLISTED HELP CONTROL PTOLEMIES MACEDONIAN GREEK INTELLIGENT SAW USEFUL ALLY CAPTIVATING RIGHT TREACHERY HOSTILITY PEOPLE TO THE ROMANS BESIEGED HOLD ITSELF EXECUTED TRAITOR JOIN THE ARMY THE GREAT LIBRARY OF CONSUMED