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Julia, Pompey's fourth wife, was Julius Caesar's only legitimate child The first-century-BCE Roman statesman and commander Pompey the Great was married five times. These marriages were not only romantic matches, but political arrangements, often dictated by Pompey's political career and need to form alliances with other powerful Roman men.
Antistia (fl. 86–82 BCE) was a Roman woman and the first of the five wives of Gnaeus Pompeius, later known as Pompey the Great. Little is known of Antistia outside her marriage to Pompey. She was promised to Pompey in marriage by her father, the lawyer, orator and senator Publius Antistius , in 86 BCE, while Antistius was presiding over the ...
Pages in category "Wives of Pompey" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Wives of Pompey the Great; A. Aemilia (wife of Pompey) Antistia ...
Pompey had five wives: [137] [138] ... Cornelia, or Pompey the Great, his faire Cornelia's tragedy (1594), was a translation from the French of Robert Garnier. ...
Julia (c. 76 BC – August 54 BC) was the daughter of Julius Caesar and his first or second wife Cornelia, and his only child from his marriages. [1] Julia became the fourth wife of Pompey the Great and was renowned for her beauty and virtue.
Landing on the shore, Pompey was murdered with Cornelia watching from the ship. [5] After Pompey's death, she fled to Cyprus with Sextus and afterwards returned to Italy with Caesar's permission to bury Pompey's ashes on his Alban estate. [6] Plutarch described her as a beautiful woman of good character, well read, and a skilled player of the ...
Pompeia was born and raised in Rome.In 59 BC, her father Pompey married for a fourth time, to Julia, the daughter of Julius Caesar.After their marriage, Pompeia was betrothed to a Servilius Caepio, but she instead married Faustus Cornelius Sulla, a politician who was the son of Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla from his wife Caecilia Metella.
Pompeia married the Roman nobleman and politician Gaius Memmius. [3] They likely had a son by the same name who became a moneyer. [4] Memmius was an ally to her brother; he commanded forces under Pompey in Sicily in 81 BC; he served Pompey as a quaestor from 76 to 75 BC during the Sertorian War on the Iberian Peninsula.