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Calpurnia was either the third or fourth wife of Julius Caesar, and the one to whom he was married at the time of his assassination.According to contemporary sources, she was a good and faithful wife, in spite of her husband's infidelity; and, forewarned of the attempt on his life, she endeavored in vain to prevent his murder.
Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (101 BC [1] – c. 43 BC) was a Roman senator and the father-in-law of Julius Caesar [2] through his daughter Calpurnia.He was reportedly a follower of a school of Epicureanism that had been modified to befit politicians, as Epicureanism itself favoured withdrawal from politics. [3]
El sueño de Calpurnia (Calpurnia's Dream, also called Calpurnia, the wife of Julius Caesar) [1] is a 1861 painting by Luis Álvarez Catalá which depicts the nightmare Calpurnia had the night before the death of her husband Julius Caesar. The work won Álvarez a Gold Medal at the first National Exposition of Florence and a second place at the ...
Julius Caesar is a 2002 miniseries about the life of Julius Caesar. It was directed by German director Uli Edel and written by Peter Pruce and Craig Warner. It is a dramatization of the life of Caesar from 82 BC to his death in 44 BC. It was one of the last two films starring Richard Harris, released in the year of his death.
He was the son of Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, consul in 58 BC, and half-brother of Calpurnia, the third and last wife of Julius Caesar. Piso was consul in 15 BC, and shortly thereafter engaged in Mediolanum as proconsul. [1] Cassius Dio refers to him as governor of Pamphylia in the years 13 to 11 BC; his province probably included Galatia.
Calpurnia (wife of Caesar), last wife of Roman dictator Julius Caesar; Calpurnia (wife of Pliny), third and last wife of Pliny the Younger and granddaughter of Calpurnius Fabatus; Lex Acilia Calpurnia (67 BC), a severe law against political corruption; Lex Calpurnia (149 BC), a law that established a permanent extortion court
Calpurnia, Caesar's widow, presented him with Caesar's personal papers and custody of his extensive property, clearly marking him as Caesar's heir and leader of the Caesarians. [64] Caesar's master of horse Marcus Aemilius Lepidus marched over 6,000 troops into Rome on 16 March to restore order and intimidate the liberatores .
"Friends, Romans": Orson Welles' Broadway production of Caesar (1937), a modern-dress production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare.