page_title: Julii Caesares
hierarchical_section_title: Julii Caesares
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Gauis Iulius Caesar. Marble, augustan age, Roma, Musei Vaticani, Museo Pio Clementino, Galleria dei Busti Italiano: Busto di Gaio Giulio Cesare. Marmo bianco lunense, altezza totale 52 cm (il solo volto h. cm 26 e largo 19 cm). Databile all'età augustea (44-30 a.C.). Oggi conservato nei Musei Vaticani (Museo Pio Clementino, Galleria dei busti, inv. 713). Questa testa di Cesare, insieme al ritratto conservato al Camposanto Monumentale di Pisa, è riconosciuto unanimemente G.Giulio Cesare e viene detto "Chiaramonti-Pisa". Nel 44 a.C. il Senato di Roma decise che Cesare avrebbe avuto una sua statua in ogni tempio di Roma e dell'Italia (Cassio Dione Cocceiano, Storia romana, XLIII, 14 e 45; XLIV, 4).
context_page_description: The Julii Caesares were the most illustrious family of the patrician gens Julia. The family first appears in history during the Second Punic War, when Sextus Julius Caesar was praetor in Sicily. His son, Sextus Julius Caesar, obtained the consulship in 157 BC; but the most famous descendant of this stirps is Gaius Julius Caesar, a general who conquered Gaul and became the undisputed master of Rome following the Civil War. Having been granted dictatorial power by the Roman Senate and instituting a number of political and social reforms, he was assassinated in 44 BC. After overcoming several rivals, Caesar's adopted son and heir, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, was proclaimed Augustus by the senate, inaugurating what became the Julio-Claudian line of Roman emperors.
context_section_description: The Julii Caesares were the most illustrious family of the patrician gens Julia.  The family first appears in history during the Second Punic War, when Sextus Julius Caesar was praetor in Sicily.  His son, Sextus Julius Caesar, obtained the consulship in 157 BC; but the most famous descendant of this stirps is Gaius Julius Caesar, a general who conquered Gaul and became the undisputed master of Rome following the Civil War.  Having been granted dictatorial power by the Roman Senate and instituting a number of political and social reforms, he was assassinated in 44 BC.  After overcoming several rivals, Caesar's adopted son and heir, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, was proclaimed Augustus by the senate, inaugurating what became the Julio-Claudian line of Roman emperors.
caption: Gaius Julius Caesar, the dictator
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