Gaius Julius Caesar rose from relative obscurity to supreme power over the Roman Empire. Born on July 13, 100 B.C, he cam from a rather humble family of little prominence. In 84 B.C, he married Lucius Cornelius Sulla. When Lucius ordered him to divorce her, he refused and escaped harm through the intervention of a relative. Afterwards, he was sent to collect a fleet from a Roman alley, Nicomedes IV, of Bithynia. At the siege of …showed first 75 words of 594 total…

…showed last 75 words of 594 total…Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, the conspirators stabbed Ceasar was a dynamic, elegant, intriguing and highly intelligent leader that aroused admiration in those who served him and respect in those he served over. Yet it was his immense ambition that eventually led to his downfall, perpetrated by his own men, his own Romans. With his death he therefore left the numerous problems of the future to his adopted son and heir, Augustus. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------