His great-grandfather was
Sextus Julius Caesar. Caesar was married to
Aurelia, a member of the
Aurelii and
Rutilii families. They had two daughters, known as
Julia Major and
Julia Minor, and Julius Caesar the dictator was born to them in 100 BC. He was the brother of
Sextus Julius Caesar (
consul in 91 BC). 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
propraetor of
Asia. The dates of these offices are unclear. The colony is probably one of Marius' of 103 BC.
Broughton dated the praetorship to 92 BC, with the quaestorship falling towards the beginning of the 90s BC. Sumner dated his term as propraetor of Asia from sometime in 92 to at least January or February 90 BC.
Brennan, on the other hand, has dated the governorship to the beginning of the decade. while putting on his shoes one morning. Another Caesar, possibly his father, had died similarly in
Pisa. His father had seen to his education by one of the best orators of Rome,
Marcus Antonius Gnipho. 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. ==Family==