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in spite of the inadequate of resources caesar seems to have chosen a political career as a matter of course. From the beginning he probably privately aimed at winning office not just for the sake of the honours but in order to achieve the power to put the misgoverned roman state and greco Roman world into better order in accordance with idea’s of his own. It is improbable that caesar deliberately sought monarchical power unital after he had crossed the Rubicon in 49 BCE though sufficient power to impose his will as the determined to do proved to mean monarchical power. In 84 BCE caesar committed himself publicly to the redical side by marrying cornelian a daughter of lucius cornelius chinna a noble who was marius associate in revolution. In 83 BCE lucius cornelius sulla returned to latly from the east and led the successful counter revolution of 83-82 BCE sulla then ordered caesar to divorce cornelian. Caesar refused and came close to losing not only his propery (such as in was) but his life as well. He found it advisable to remove himself from Italy and do to military service first in the province of Asia and then in cilicia. In 78 BCE after sulla s death he returned to Rome and started on his political career in the conventional way by acting as a prosecuting advocate of course in his case against prominent sullan counter revolutionrise. His first target gnaeus cornelius dolaabella was defended by quints hortensius the leading advocate of the day and was acquitted by the extortion court jury composed exclusively of senators. caesar then went to Rhodes to study oratory under a famous professor molon. En route he was captured by pirates (one of the symptoms of the anarchy into which the Roman nobility had allowed the Mediterranean world to fall. ) caesar raised his ransom raised a naval force captured his captors and had them crucified all this as a private individuals holding no public office. In 74 BCE when mithradates VI Eupator king of pontus renewed war in the Romans in his absence from Rome caesar was a member of the politico ecclesiastic college of pontifices and on his return he gained one of the elective military tribuneship. Caesar now worked to undo the sullan constitution in cooperation with pomeny ( Gnaeus pompeius) who had started his career as a lieutenant of sulla but had changed sides since sulla s death. In 69 or 68 BCE caesar was elected quaestor ( the first rung on the Roman political ladder). In the same year his wife cornelia and his aunt julia marius widow died. In public funeral orations in their honour caesar found opportunities for praising chinna and marius. Caesar afterwards married pompeia a distant relative of pompey. Caesar served his quaestorship in the province of father spain (modern andalusia and portugal). Caesar was elected One of the curule aediles for 65 BCE and he celebrated his tenure of this office by unusually lavish expenditure with borrowed money. He was elected pontifex maximum in 63 BCE by a political dodge. By now he had become a controversial political figure. After the suppression of catilines conspiracy in 63 BCE caesar as well the millionaire marcus licinius crassus was accused of simplicity. It seems unlikely that either of them has committed himself to catiline but caesar proposed in the senate a more merciful alternative to the death penalty which the consul cicero was asking for the arrested conspirators. In the uproar in the senate Caesar’s motion was defeated. Caesar was elected a praetor for 62 BCE. Toward the end of the year of his praetorship a Scandal was caused by publish clodius in Caesar’s house at the celebration there of the rites for women only of bona dea (a Roman deity of fruitfulness both in the earth and in women). Caesar consequently Divorced pompeia. He obtained the governorship of father spain for 61-60 BCE. His creditors did not let him leave rome until cressus had gone bail for a quarter of his debts but a military expedition beyond the northwest frontier of his province enabled caesar to win loot for himself as well as for his soldiers with a balance left over for the treasury. This partial financial recovery enabled him after his return to Rome in 69 BCE