High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The early career of Julius Caesar was characterized by military adventurism and political persecution. Julius Caesar was born on July 12, 100 BC, into a patrician family, the gens Julia, which claimed descent from Iulus, son of the legendary Trojan prince Aeneas, supposedly the son of the goddess Venus. His father died early, and his family status put him at odds with the Dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla, who almost had him executed.