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- 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…
- 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…