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Gaius Julius Caesar [a] (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and subsequently became dictator from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC.
In the past it was commonly accepted that Caesar and Cossutia were married, but more recent opinions differ. Among those arguing that Caesar was never married to Cossutia are Ludwig Friedrich Otto Baumgarten-Crusius, Napoleon III, Charles Merivale, James Anthony Froude, Theodore Ayrault Dodge, William Warde Fowler, Ernest Gottlieb Sihler, Adolf von Mess [], and John Carew Rolfe. [4]
Calpurnia married Julius Caesar late in 59 BC, during the latter's consulship. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] She was about seventeen years old, and was likely younger than her stepdaughter, Julia. About this time, Julia married (Pompey) Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus , a former protégé of Sulla, who had been consul in 70 BC, and recently become one of ...
In Suetonius' chronology, Caesar was born in 100 BC, placing the death of his father in 85 or 84. Thus, he probably married Cornelia in 83, when he was about seventeen years old, and she perhaps a little younger. [ii] [1] [6] [7] Their daughter, Julia, was Caesar's only legitimate child, and the only one he acknowledged. [iii] [4] The young ...
The Julio-Claudian dynasty was the first dynasty of Roman emperors.All emperors of that dynasty descended from Julii Caesares and/or from Claudii.Marriages between descendants of Sextus Julius Caesar and Claudii had occurred from the late stages of the Roman Republic, but the intertwined Julio-Claudian family tree resulted mostly from adoptions and marriages in Imperial Rome's first decades.
Pompeia (fl. 1st century BC) was either the second or third [i] wife of Julius Caesar. Pompeia's parents were Quintus Pompeius Rufus, a son of a former consul, and Cornelia, the daughter of the Roman dictator Sulla. Caesar married Pompeia in 67 BC, [1] after he had served as quaestor in Hispania, his first wife Cornelia having died in 69 BC.
By the time of Julius Caesar, it was largely abandoned in favor of "free" marriage, [22] when a wife moved into her husband's home, she remained under her father's lawful authority, but she did not conduct her daily life under his direct scrutiny, [23] and her husband had no legal power over her. [24]
Ten years later the official pyre for Caesar's cremation would be erected near the tomb of his daughter, [22] [23] but the people intervened after the funeral oration by Mark Antony and cremated Caesar's body in the Forum. After Julia's death, Pompey and Caesar's alliance began to fade, which resulted in Caesar's civil war.