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1st-century BC Roman consuls
- CiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero was born on the 3rd of January 106 BC in the hill town of Arpinum. His family belonged to the wealthy equestrian order, yet his name…
- Julius CaesarGaius Julius Caesar entered the world on 12 or the 13th of July 100 BC into a family claiming ancient divine lineage. His clan traced its roots to Julus, son…
- Mark AntonyMarcus Antonius was born in Rome on the 14th of January 83 BC. His father, Marcus Antonius Creticus, held a reputation for incompetence and corruption among…
- PompeyGnaeus Pompeius Magnus was born on the 29th of September in 106 BC within the region of Picenum. He entered a military career while still young, serving…
- AugustusOn the 23rd of September in 63 BC, a boy named Gaius Octavius drew his first breath inside a family estate on Rome's Palatine Hill.
- Gnaeus Octavius (consul 87 BC)Gnaeus Octavius entered the Roman political arena as a member of the Plebeian gens Octavia. His father held the consulship in 128 BC, establishing a family…
- Lucius Antonius (brother of Mark Antony)Lucius Antonius spent his early years roaming through Rome in bad company. Plutarch describes the untamed life of him and his friends.
- Gaius MariusGaius Marius was born in Cereatae, a small village near the town of Arpinum in south-east Latium. The town had been conquered by the Romans in the late 4th…
- Lucius Cornelius CinnaLucius Cornelius Cinna entered the world before 130 BC into a patrician family that lacked recent distinction. The historian Theodor Mommsen once argued the…
- Marcus Licinius CrassusMarcus Licinius Crassus was born in 115 BC into the gens Licinia, an old and respected plebeian family in Rome. He was the second of three sons born to…
- SullaLucius Cornelius Sulla Felix was born in Rome around 138 BC into a branch of the patrician gens Cornelia that had fallen to poverty.
- Marcus Vipsanius AgrippaMarcus Vipsanius Agrippa entered the world in 63 BC, the same year Octavian was born. His family originated in the Italian countryside and held plebeian…
- Gaius Asinius PollioGaius Asinius Pollio emerged from the hills of central Italy, born in the town known today as Chieti. His father bore the name Gnaeus Asinius Pollio, a man…