Julius Caesar spouse Pompeia
Entrance to politics
While absent from Rome, in 73 BC, Caesar was co-opted into the pontifices in place of his deceased relative Gaius Aurelius Cotta. The promotion marked him both as promising youth and as a member of the senatorial elite. Caesar decided to return shortly thereafter and on his return was elected one of the military tribunes for 71 BC. There is no evidence that Caesar served in war – even though the war on Spartacus was on-going – during his term; he did, however, agitate for the removal of the disabilities placed on the plebeian tribunate by Sulla and for the recall of those exiled for supporting Lepidus' revolt. Caesar also supported one of the plebeian tribunes in passing a law recalling those exiles the next year; he was then elected quaestor.Caesar was allotted to serve under Gaius Antistius Vetus in Hispania Ulterior. However, before he left, his aunt Julia, the widow of Marius, died; soon afterwards his wife Cornelia died shortly after bearing his only legitimate child, Julia. He gave eulogies for both at public funerals. During Julia's funeral, Caesar displayed the images of his aunt's husband Marius. Some of the Sullan nobles – including Quintus Lutatius Catulus – who had suffered under the Marian regime objected, but "it was... probably already customary to include the imago of a deceased husband in the funeral of a noble lady". Contra Plutarch, Caesar's action here was likely in keeping with a political trend for reconciliation and normalisation rather than a display of renewed factionalism. Caesar quickly re-married, taking the hand of Sulla's grand-daughter Pompeia.
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