I knew, who in that Limbo were suspended. The foremost circle that surrounds the abyss. In Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy (14th century), Julia was encountered by Dante in the first circle of Hell, the Limbo (where rest souls who are not in torture, the pagans that lived righteous existences): The date of the ceremony was chosen to coincide with the ludi Veneris Genetricis in September 26, the festival in honor of Venus Genetrix, the divine ancestress of the Julians.Ħ9 BC68 BC Cornelia Cinna (Julia's mother and Caesar's first wife) dies in childbirthĥ4 BC Julia dies in childbed, her child only survives a few days Caesar himself vowed a ceremony to her manes, which he exhibited in 46 BC as extensive funeral games including gladiatorial combats. It was remarked, as a singular omen, that on the day Augustus entered the city as Caesar's adoptive son, the monument of Julia was struck by lightning. Ten years later the official pyre for Caesar's cremation would be erected near the tomb of his daughter, but the people intervened after the laudatio funebris by Marcus Antonius and cremated Caesar's body in the Forum.Īfter Julias death Pompey and Caesars alliance began to fade which resulted in Caesar's civil war. But the popular will prevailed, and, after listening to a funeral oration in the forum, the people placed her urn in the Campus Martius. For permission a special decree of the senate was necessary, and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, one of the consuls of 54 BC, impelled by his hatred to Pompey and Caesar, procured an interdict from the tribunes. Pompey wished her ashes to repose in his favourite Alban villa, but the Roman people, who loved Julia, determined they should rest in the field of Mars. Caesar was in Britain, according to Seneca, when he received the tidings of Julia's death. In August of the next year, 54 BC, she died in childbed, and her infant a son, according to some writers, a daughter, according to others,survived her only a few days. Imagining that her husband was slain, she fell into premature labour, and her constitution received an irreparable shock. A slave carried the stained toga to his house on the Carinae and was seen by Julia. At the election of aediles in 55 BC, Pompey was surrounded by a tumultuous mob, and his gown was sprinkled with blood of the rioters. Julia died before a breach between her husband and father had become inevitable. In fact, Pompey had been given the governorship of Hispania Ulterior, but had been permitted to remain in Rome to oversee the Roman grain supply as curator annonae, exercising his command through subordinates. A rumor suggested that the aging conqueror was losing interest in politics in favor of domestic life with his young wife. The personal charms of Julia were remarkable: she was a woman of beauty and virtue and although policy prompted her union, and she was twenty-three years younger than her husband, she possessed in Pompey a devoted husband, to whom she was, in return, devotedly attached. Pompey was supposedly infatuated with his bride. This family-alliance of its two great chiefs was regarded as the firmest bond between Caesar and Pompey, and was accordingly viewed with much alarm by the oligarchal party in Rome, especially by Marcus Tullius Cicero and Cato the Younger. Caesar broke off this engagement and married her to Pompey in April 59 BC, with whom Caesar sought a strong political alliance in forming the First Triumvirate. Her father wanted her to marry Faustus Cornelius Sulla, but she got engaged to a certain Quintus Servilius Caepio. After her mother died in childbirth around 69 BC68 BC, she was raised by her paternal grandmother Aurelia Cotta. Julia became the fourth wife of Pompey the Great and was renowned for her beauty and virtue. Julia Caesaris (Classical Latin: IVLIAØCAESARIS) was the daughter of Gaius Julius Caesar the dictator, by his first wife, Cornelia Cinna, and his only child in marriage.
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