Rome and the Politics of Rome

Julius caesar was captured by pirates and held captive for nearly forty days. He shared meals with them, wrote poetry and made them listen to him. But he kept joking that one day he would return and he would have them all crucified. The political system in Rome is a little bit complicated - it's not like athens or Athens. Caesar started approaching the ladder in about 72 b c e, when he was em elected military tribune. In 69, so just three years later, he held the position of quistor, which is when he really gets on to that ladder. And as a quistor, you're sent abroad,. And he was sent to spain