The union terrified the Roman Senate who knew that a partnership between three such powerful men would prove unstoppable. A series of successful military and political maneuvers, along with the support of Pompey and Marcus Licinius Crassus (known as the richest man in Rome), helped Caesar get elected as senior Roman consul in 59 B.C.Ĭaesar, Crassus and Pompey soon formed an informal alliance (strengthened by the marriage of Caesar’s daughter Julia to Pompey) known as the First Triumvirate. One year later, Caesar became governor of Spain. after a politician incited a major scandal by disguising himself as a woman and making his way into a sacred women’s festival hosted by Pompeia. Two years later, he was elected Pontifex Maximus.Ĭaesar divorced Pompeia in 62 B.C. In 65 B.C., Caesar became aedile-an important Roman magistrate-and produced lavish games in the Circus Maximus which endeared him to the public but threw him heavily into debt. In 67 B.C., he married Pompeia, a granddaughter of Sulla and relative of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great), with whom he formed an important alliance. He became military tribune and then quaestor of a Roman province in 69 B.C., the same year his wife Cornelia died. Caesar soon began his political career in earnest.
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