Gaius Iulius Caesar III
Roman · mortal · roman republic late · mortal
Mortal-floor (Aeneas-Ascanius divine-line annotation through the canonical gens-Iulia eponymic genealogy) Roman senator and praetor (~140-85 BCE). Father of Gaius Iulius Caesar the Dictator and of Iulia Minor (grandmother of Octavian-Augustus). Died suddenly in 85 BCE at Pisa while putting on his shoes — the canonical Suetonius-and-Pliny mors-repentina example. His unexpected death made the 16-year-old future Dictator the head of the gens Iulia.
Children
Relations
- spouse: Aurelia Cotta
- father of: Gaius Iulius Caesar
Sources
- Suetonius, Divus Iulius 1
- Velleius Paterculus 2.43
- Pliny Naturalis Historia 7.181 (the death-while-putting-on-shoes account)