Siding with prominent local allies such as the Aedui, Caesar would justify wars that took him all over northwest Europe, fighting various peoples including the Gauls, the Belgae, the Aquitani ...
He was the son of Gaius Julius Caesar, a Praetor in the province of Asia, and his mother, Aurelia Cotta, who was of noble birth. After his rise to power, Caesar became a member of the […] ...