Sextus Julius Caesar II

Male 204 BC - Aft 147 BC


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  1. 1.  Sextus Julius Caesar II was born in 204 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died after 147 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • House: gens Julia
    • Life Event: 147 BC; Ambassador to Greece
    • Life Event: 165 BC; Curule Aediles
    • Life Event: 170 BC; Legate to Thrace
    • Life Event: 181 BC, Liguria, Italy; Military Tribune
    • Life Event: 157 BC; Proconsul
    • FSID: LXWX-12D

    Notes:

    Sextus I appears to have had at least two children: Lucius, who was praetor in 183 BC, and Sextus, who served as military tribune in 181, and attained the consulship in BC 157. In his reconstruction of the Julii Caesares, classical scholar Wilhelm Drumann assumed that the consul was the son of the military tribune, rather than the same man, and therefore inserted an otherwise unknown Lucius between Sextus the praetor and his two sons; but since the tribune and the consul are identical, the consul's grandfather Lucius must have been the father of Sextus, praetor in BC 208.

    Sextus Julius Caesar II was a Roman statesman, and the first member of the Julii Caesares to hold the consulship, which he attained in 157 BC. He was a military tribune in 181 BC, and consul in 157 BC

    Family
    From his filiation, we know that Sextus' father was also named Sextus, and that his grandfather was named Lucius. In his reconstruction of the family, classical scholar Wilhelm Drumann assumed that he was the son of Sextus Julius Caesar, one of the military tribunes if 181 BC, and the grandson of an otherwise unknown Lucius Julius Caesar, who would have been the son of Sextus, praetor in 208 BC. However, more recent scholarship has concluded that the military tribune and the consul were the same person, and that his father was the praetor of 208 BC.

    Sextus had at least one brother, Lucius, who was praetor in 183 BC, and probably a second, Gaius, who was a senator and the great-grandfather of Gaius Julius Caesar, the dictator. He had two sons: Sextus, who was praetor urbanus in 123 BC, and Lucius, by whom he was the grandfather of Lucius Julius Caesar, consul in BC 90, and the orator Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus.

    Career
    In 181 BC, Sextus served as a military tribune under Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, proconsul of Liguria. In 170, he was one of the legates sent to Thrace in order to restore liberty to the people of Abdera, and to seek out and return those who had been sold into slavery. In 165, Sextus was one of the curule aediles. At the Megalesian Games, he and his colleague, Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella, gave the first, unsuccessful presentation of Terence's comedy, Hecyra. Sextus subsequently held the praetorship; the exact year is uncertain, but it was no later than 160 BC.

    In BC 157, Sextus became the first of the Julii Caesares to obtain the consulship. His colleague was Lucius Aurelius Orestes. Their year of office was largely uneventful; Ariarathes, who had been deposed as King of Cappadocia the previous year, was at Rome seeking support for his subsequent restoration, and Sextus is named as a witness to a decree of the senate to the people of Tibur.

    Ten years after their consulship, in BC 147, Orestes was sent as part of an ambassadorial mission to arbitrate in a dispute between the Achaean League and the Lacedaemonians. Following the senate's instructions, he removed several important towns from the League, leading to riots at Corinth, and an attack on the ambassadors. In response, his former colleague was dispatched at the head of a second delegation with instructions to censure the Achaeans and continue negotiating the dispute. Sextus' attempt to resolve the dispute was frustrated by the Achaean general Critolaus. The following year, the League rose against Rome, and was decisively defeated in the Achaean War. The League was dissolved, and most of mainland Greece was incorporated into the Roman Republic.

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Gaius Julius Caesar II  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 21 May 163 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 90 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; was buried in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Gaius Julius Caesar II Descendancy chart to this point (1.Sextus1) was born in 21 May 163 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 90 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; was buried in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • House: gens Julia
    • FSID: 9HQX-7DF

    Family/Spouse: Marcia Quinta Regina. Marcia (daughter of Quintus Marcius Rex III) was born in 26 Apr 165 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 31 Jul 84 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; was buried in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 3. Gaius Julius Caesar III  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 21 May 140 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 7 Jan 85 BC in Pisa, Toscana, Italy; was buried in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  Gaius Julius Caesar III Descendancy chart to this point (2.Gaius2, 1.Sextus1) was born in 21 May 140 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 7 Jan 85 BC in Pisa, Toscana, Italy; was buried in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • House: gens Julia
    • FSID: L2T2-QY1

    Notes:

    Caesar was married to Aurelia Cotta, a member of the Aurelii and Rutilii families. They had two daughters, known as Julia Major and Julia Minor, and a son, Gaius, who was born in 100 BC.[1] He was the brother of Sextus Julius Caesar (consul in 91 BC)[2] and the son of Gaius Julius Caesar.

    Caesar's progress through the cursus honorum is well known, although the specific dates associated with his offices are controversial. According to two elogia erected in Rome long after his death, Caesar was a commissioner in the colony at Cercina, military tribune, quaestor, praetor, and proconsul of Asia.[3] The dates of these offices are unclear. The colony is probably one of Marius' of 103 BC.[4] Broughton dated the praetorship to 92 BC, with the quaestorship falling towards the beginning of the 90s BC.[5] Brennan has dated the praetorship to the beginning of the decade.[6]

    Caesar died suddenly in 85 BC, in Rome, while putting on his shoes one morning. Another Caesar, possibly his father, had died similarly in Pisa.[7] His father had seen to his education by one of the best orators of Rome, Marcus Antonius Gnipho.[8] In his will, he left Caesar the bulk of his estate, but after Marius's faction had been defeated in the civil war of the 80s BC, this inheritance was confiscated by the dictator Sulla.[9]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Caesar_(father_of_Caesar)

    Gaius Julius Caesar III was a Roman senator and father of Julius Caesar, the later dictator of Rome.

    Caesar was married to Aurelia Cotta, a member of the Aurelii and Rutilii families, and had two daughters, both named Julia as was common in Rome, and a son, Julius Caesar, born in 100 BC. He was the brother of Sextus Julius Caesar (consul in 91 BC) and the son of Gaius Julius Caesar II.

    Family/Spouse: Aurelia Cotta. Aurelia (daughter of Lucius Aurelius Cotta and Rutilia Rufa Diroma) was born in 21 May 120 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 31 Jul 54 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 4. Julia Minor Caesarius  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 24 Jun 101 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 51 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.
    2. 5. Julia Antonia Caesaria  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 104 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 39 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.


Generation: 4

  1. 4.  Julia Minor Caesarius Descendancy chart to this point (3.Gaius3, 2.Gaius2, 1.Sextus1) was born in 24 Jun 101 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 51 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • House: gens Julia
    • FSID: L6BJ-CC6

    Family/Spouse: Marcus Atius Balbus. Marcus (son of Marcus Atius Balbus and Pompeia Lucilla) was born in 105 BC in Ariccia, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 51 BC in Roman Republic ( 509 BC - 27 BC ). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 6. Atia Balba Caesonia  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 85 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 43 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.

  2. 5.  Julia Antonia Caesaria Descendancy chart to this point (3.Gaius3, 2.Gaius2, 1.Sextus1) was born in 104 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 39 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • FSID: LNDP-FQX

    Notes:

    Spouses : Marcus Antonius Creticus & Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura
    Children :
    . Antonia
    . Marcus Antonius
    . Gaius Antonius
    . Lucius Antonius
    Parents : Lucius Julius Caesar (father) & Fulvia (mother)

    Julia (104 – after 39 BC) (sometimes also called "Julia Antonia" to distinguish her from other Juliae) was the mother of the triumvir general Mark Antony. She was the daughter of Lucius Julius Caesar (the consul of 90 BC) and Fulvia. She and her brother Lucius Julius Caesar (who was consul in 64 BC) were born and raised in Rome. Julia was a third-cousin of Julius Caesar (their great-grandparents Gaius and Sextus Julius Caesar were siblings).

    Julia married Marcus Antonius Creticus, a man of a senatorial family. Their sons were the triumvir Mark Antony, Gaius Antonius and Lucius Antonius. Because of their kinship through her, Gaius Julius Caesar was obliged to promote the political careers of her sons, despite his distaste for their father and his generally low opinion of their abilities. After Julia's first husband died about 70 BC, she married Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura, a politician who in 63 BC was involved in the Catilinarian conspiracy and was executed on the orders of Cicero.

    Plutarch describes her as one of "most nobly born and admirable women of her time". The following clause from Plutarch describes her relationship with her first husband:
    His father was Antony, surnamed of Crete, not very famous or distinguished in public life, but a worthy good man, and particularly remarkable for his liberality, as may appear from a single example. He was not very rich, and was for that reason checked in the exercise of his good nature by his wife. A friend that stood in need of money came to borrow of him. Money he had none, but he bade a servant bring him water in a silver basin, with which, when it was brought, he wetted his face, as if he meant to shave, and, sending away the servant upon another errand, gave his friend the basin, desiring him to turn it to his purpose. And when there was afterwards a great inquiry for it in the house, and his wife was in a very ill humour, and was going to put the servants one by one to the search, he acknowledged what he had done, and begged her pardon.
    — Plutarch, Antony 1

    Elsewhere Plutarch illustrates her character with an episode from the proscription of 43 BC, during the Second Triumvirate:
    His uncle, Lucius Caesar, being closely pursued, took refuge with his sister, who, when the murderers had broken into her house and were pressing into her chamber, met them at the door, and spreading out hands, cried out several times. "You shall not kill Lucius Caesar till you first dispatch me who gave your general his birth!" and in this manner she succeeded in getting her brother out of the way, and saving his life.
    — Plutarch, Antony 20

    During the Perusine War (modern Perugia) between 41 BC-40 BC, Julia left Rome, although Octavian (future Roman Emperor Augustus) treated her with kindness. She never trusted Sextus Pompeius. When Sextus Pompeius was in Sicily, Julia had sent to Greece for Antony, a distinguished escort and convoy of triremes. After the reconciliation of the triumvirs, Julia returned with Antony to Italy in 39 BC and was probably present at the meeting with Sextus Pompeius at Misenum.

    Julia married Marcus Antonius Creticus Octavia II in UNKNOWN in Roman Republic ( 509 BC - 27 BC ). Marcus (son of Marcus Antonius and Julia) was born in 103 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 69 BC in Crete, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 7. Marcus Antonius  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 14 Jan 83 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 1 Aug 30 BC in Alexandria, Egypt.