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==Pontifex Maximus==
==Pontifex Maximus==
[[Image:Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus - Dressed as the Pontifex Maximus - National Roman Museum, Italy - 960x1455px.jpg|150px|right|[[Augustus Caesar]] dressed in the garb of the Pontifex Maximus.]]
[[Image:Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus - Dressed as the Pontifex Maximus - National Roman Museum, Italy - 960x1455px.jpg|150px|thumb|right|[[Augustus Caesar]] dressed in the garb of the Pontifex Maximus.]]
In '''63 BC''' Julius Caesar was elected [[Pontifex Maximus]] for which he risked the entire family fortune to obtain through the purchase of votes to the highest priestly office in the Roman Republic.<ref>Suetonius, ''Divus Julius'', 13</ref> In modern terms he became the lifelong and more powerful version of we might call the cabinet '''Minister for Religion'''. His desire for the role was so great that Julius accrued debts therebuy bigger than he could repay; therefore he famously told his mother that morning as he left the house for the Forum:
In '''63 BC''' Julius Caesar was elected [[Pontifex Maximus]] for which he risked the entire family fortune to obtain through the purchase of votes to the highest priestly office in the Roman Republic.<ref>Suetonius, ''Divus Julius'', 13</ref> In modern terms he became the lifelong and more powerful version of we might call the cabinet '''Minister for Religion'''. His desire for the role was so great that Julius accrued debts therebuy bigger than he could repay; therefore he famously told his mother that morning as he left the house for the Forum: