{"id":49838,"date":"2019-05-04T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/only-son-of-caesar\/"},"modified":"2019-05-06T22:23:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:23:54","slug":"only-son-of-caesar","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/only-son-of-caesar\/","title":{"rendered":"Only son of Caesar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/cezarion\/\">Caesarion<\/a> was the only child of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/gaius-julius-caesar\/\">Julius Caesar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/cleopatra-vii\/\">Cleopatra VII<\/a>. After the death of his father, he remained at the side of his mother, who, together with her lover, suffered a defeat in the civil war with <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/augustus\/\">Gaius Octavian<\/a>. Seventeen-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/caesarion\/\">Caesarion<\/a>, after invasion of Roman <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/\">army<\/a> on Alexandria, was sent by his mother, Cleopatra, to the south, where Cleopatra&#8217;s ships stood by the bay of the Red Sea. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They were to take the young man to India. The young Caesarion was accompanied by his grammars &#8211; Rhodon and a carefully selected crew of Rhodian sailors. During a trip to the south, Rhodon most likely made a plan to give his ward to the Romans, expecting a noble reward for it. Both the grammar and the crew managed to persuade Caesarion to go to Pelusium, where they would rent a ship and sail to Media, which was favoring Egypt. Caesarion agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Barely everyone reached Pelusium, once Rhodon handed over a youth to the Romans. Octavian was to ask the philosopher Arejos if he had the right to kill Caesarion. The philosopher, paraphrasing Homer<sup class=\"footnote\" data-qtip=\"&#039;The government of many is not good&#039; [Homer, Iliad, II.198]\" data-footid=\"1\">1<\/sup>, said: &#8220;Too many Caesars is not good&#8221; On August 29th, 30 BCE the son of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/caesar-queen-of-nicomedes\/\">Caesar<\/a> and Cleopatra was strangled in the Alexandrian prison on the orders of Octavian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37065,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-49838","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/49838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/49838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=49838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}