Lucius Julius Caesar

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In Ancient Rome, several men of the Julii Caesares family were named Lucius Julius Caesar. None of these members of the Julii Caesares family are to be confused with the much more famous Gaius Julius Caesar, the Roman who conquered Gaul, became dictator for life, and then was murdered by Roman senators.

Contents

1 Lucius Julius Caesar I
2 Lucius Julius Caesar II
3 Lucius Julius Caesar III
4 Lucius Julius Caesar IV
5 Lucius Julius Caesar V
6 Lucius Caesar
7 See also

Lucius Julius Caesar I

Son of Numerius Julius Caesar and father to Sextus Julius Caesar I. Lucius was a great grandson to Lucius Julius Libo.

Lucius Julius Caesar II

Son of Sextus Julius Caesar II. Married Poppilia. They had 2 sons Lucius Julius Caesar III and Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus.

Lucius Julius Caesar III

Lucius Julius Caesar III (c. 135 BC – 87 BC) was a son of Lucius Julius Caesar II, and elder brother to Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus. Lucius was involved in the downfall of tribune of Lucius Appuleius Saturninus in 100 BC and became praetor in 94 BC without being a quaestor and aedile first. Later he became Macedonian Governor.

Lucius became consul in 90 BC. During his consulship, he defeated the Samnites. Lucius proposed Roman Citizenship laws to allies who didn’t participate in the Social War against Rome in 90 BC. This proposal became known as the Julian Law. Later he became Censor and due to the success of the Julian Law, became responsible for dividing new citizens into voting districts. His colleague in this was a former consul, Publius Licinius Crassus Dives (consul 97 BC) (father of triumvir, Marcus Licinius Crassus).

Lucius and his brother were killed together in 87 BC at the beginning of the Civil War by partisans of Marius. They died fighting in the streets. According to Livy, their heads were exposed on the speaker’s platform.

His children were Lucius Julius Caesar IV and Julia Antonia.

Roman coinage of him can be seen at http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/rsc/julia/i.html

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Lucius Julius Caesar IV

Son of Lucius Julius Caesar III. Died after 43 BC. Consul of 64 BC, was a legate in Gaul in 52 BC and a high priest. After the conquest of Gaul he went to Pompey. He accompanied Julius Caesar into civil war. After Caesar's assassination he allied with his nephew Mark Antony. He and his nephew fell out in 43 BC, but the pleas of his sister saved himself and his nephew from proscription.

References

[L. julius L. f. L. n. caesar entry in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (Nr. 11 in v. 1, page 538) at "The Ancient Library" website]

Lucius Julius Caesar V

Son of the Lucius Julius Caesar IV. Lucius was a quaestor in 46 BC.

Lucius Caesar

Lucius Caesar (17 BC – AD 2), was born Lucius Vipsanius Agrippa, as a son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder. Later he was adopted by his maternal grandfather Augustus: from that moment his full name was Lucius Julius Caesar Vipsanianus.