Gaius Julius Cäsar
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Basic data
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July 13, 100 BCE in Rom
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†March 15, 44 BCE in Rom
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Staatsmann, Feldherr
Iconography
_(cropped).jpg "Caesar as portrayed by the Tusculum portrait (Source: Wikimedia)")
.jpg "Sulla, depicted on a coin minted by Quintus Pompeius Rufus in 54 BC. Sulla took the city in 82 BC, purged his political enemies, and instituted new constitutional reforms. (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Bronze bust of Cato, Caesar's principal opponent in the Catilinarian debate and also a personal enemy. Cato may have been responsible for the law requiring declarations of candidacy in person within the pomerium.[60] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cato_Volubilis_bronze_bust.jpg "Bronze bust of Cato, Caesar's principal opponent in the Catilinarian debate and also a personal enemy. Cato may have been responsible for the law requiring declarations of candidacy in person within the pomerium.[60] (Source: Wikimedia)")
_Pompey_the_Great,_Museo_Archeologico_Nazionale.jpg "A Roman bust of Pompey the Great made during the reign of Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD), a copy of an original bust from 70 to 60 BC, Venice National Archaeological Museum, Italy (Source: Wikimedia)")
![This mid-1st-century-BC Roman wall painting in Pompeii is probably a depiction of Cleopatra VII as Venus Genetrix, with her son Caesarion as Cupid. Its owner Marcus Fabius Rufus most likely ordered its concealment behind a wall in reaction to the execution of Caesarion on orders of Octavian in 30 BC.[167][168] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_and_Cupid_from_the_House_of_Marcus_Fabius_Rufus_at_Pompeii,_most_likely_a_depiction_of_Cleopatra_VII.jpg "This mid-1st-century-BC Roman wall painting in Pompeii is probably a depiction of Cleopatra VII as Venus Genetrix, with her son Caesarion as Cupid. Its owner Marcus Fabius Rufus most likely ordered its concealment behind a wall in reaction to the execution of Caesarion on orders of Octavian in 30 BC.[167][168] (Source: Wikimedia)")
![This also shows Caesar's laurelled head with the inscription CAESAR DICT PERPETVO. The reverse, however, shows the name of the moneyer – one Publius Sepullius Macer – along with the goddess Venus, with which Caesar identified, holding Victory in her right hand and a sceptre in the left.[215] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iulius_Caesar_denarius_44_BC_851830.jpg "This also shows Caesar's laurelled head with the inscription CAESAR DICT PERPETVO. The reverse, however, shows the name of the moneyer – one Publius Sepullius Macer – along with the goddess Venus, with which Caesar identified, holding Victory in her right hand and a sceptre in the left.[215] (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Denarius (42 BC) of Cassius and Lentulus Spinther, depicting the crowned head of Liberty and on the reverse a sacrificial jug and lituus[216] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gaius_Cassius_Longinus_and_Lentulus_Spinther._42_BC._AR_Denarius.jpg "Denarius (42 BC) of Cassius and Lentulus Spinther, depicting the crowned head of Liberty and on the reverse a sacrificial jug and lituus[216] (Source: Wikimedia)")
.jpg "The Chiaramonti Caesar bust, a posthumous portrait in marble, 44–30 BC, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museums (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Roman painting from the House of Giuseppe II, Pompeii, early 1st century AD, most likely depicting Cleopatra VII, wearing her royal diadem, consuming poison in an act of suicide, while her son Caesarion, also wearing a royal diadem, stands behind her[271] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_Wall_painting_from_the_House_of_Giuseppe_II,_Pompeii,_1st_century_AD,_death_of_Sophonisba,_but_more_likely_Cleopatra_VII_of_Egypt_consuming_poison.jpg "Roman painting from the House of Giuseppe II, Pompeii, early 1st century AD, most likely depicting Cleopatra VII, wearing her royal diadem, consuming poison in an act of suicide, while her son Caesarion, also wearing a royal diadem, stands behind her[271] (Source: Wikimedia)")
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