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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 Caesar was one of those to whom Sulla turned his attention after returning to Rome.
Cornelia or Pompey the Great, his Fair Cornelia's Tragedy is a 1590 play by Thomas Kyd. The play is about Cornelia Metella, the widow of Pompey. The play ends with Pompey's death and the reactions from his family. Julius Caesar does not appear in person but has a presence throughout. [1]
Adrienne Lecouvreur, as Cornelia in The Death of Pompey First publication of The Death of Pompey. The Death of Pompey (La Mort de Pompée) is a tragedy by the French playwright Pierre Corneille on the death of Pompey the Great. It was first performed in 1642, with Julius Caesar played by Molière.
Cornelia was celebrated for her education: she was a skilled lyre-player and described by Plutarch as a cultivated person. [82] According to Shelley Haley, Pompey showed her "deep and lasting affection". [83] Unlike his previous wives, Cornelia accompanied Pompey during his military campaigns of Caesar's civil war, which
Cornelia Metella is a focus of Lucan's Civil War, which treats her as Pompey's partner in war and travel. [ 8 ] Cornelia appears in George Frideric Handel 's 1724 opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto ("Julius Caesar in Egypt"), where she pleads with Caesar to spare her husband; he is about to grant her plea, but Pompey was already killed by the Egyptians.
Cornelia L. f. L. n., wife of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus. Cornelia L. f. L. n., daughter of the consul of 87 BC, and wife of Julius Caesar. Lucius Cornelius L. f. L. n. Cinna, praetor in 44, was almost murdered by a mob after denouncing his former brother-in-law, Julius Caesar, after the latter's assassination.
Cinna is one of the conspirators against Caesar in Julius Caesar. Cinna is a poet, mistaken for the conspirator Cinna in Julius Caesar. Realising they have the wrong man, the mob "kill him for his bad verses". Clarence: George, Duke of Clarence is the younger brother of Edward and the elder brother of Richard in Henry VI, part 3 and Richard III ...
Batson, Beatrice ed. Shakespeare’s Christianity: The Protestant and Catholic Poetics of Julius Caesar, Macbeth and Hamlet Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2006. Batson, Beatrice ed. Word and Rite: The Bible and Ceremony in Selected Shakespearean Works Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.