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Suetonius reports that Caesar and Cornelia were married in the consulate occurring after Caesar lost his father, which occurred in his sixteenth year. [1] In Suetonius' chronology, Caesar was born in 100 BC, placing the death of his father in 85 or 84.
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 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
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.
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.
Pages in category "Wives of Julius Caesar" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Cornelia (wife of Caesar) P. Pompeia (wife of Caesar) ...
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.
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.