Aurelia (mother of Caesar)

Aurelia († 54 BC ), sometimes also called Aurelia Cotta in modern literature with the addition of her father's cognomen , was the mother of the Roman dictator Gaius Iulius Caesar .

Aurelia was the daughter of Rutilia and Lucius Aurelius Cotta , who lived in 119 BC. The consulate clad. Her brother Lucius reached around 95 BC. The praetur . From her marriage to Gaius Iulius Caesar , who lived in 92 BC. The following children were born: Iulia Maior , Iulia Minor (approx. 101–51 BC) and Gaius Iulius Caesar (100–44 BC).

When Caesar was 18 years old, ordered the former dictator Sulla , he should of Cornelia , the daughter of his enemy Cinna can be eliminated. Caesar refused, however, and thus put himself in great danger. But Aurelia and her influential relatives successfully defended him. After Cornelia 68 BC. Aurelia took over the upbringing of her granddaughter Iulia .

It was also Aurelia who, during the Bona Dea festival in 62 BC. That took place in the house of her son, who discovered Publius Clodius Pulcher disguised as a woman . He obviously had an affair with her daughter-in-law Pompeia Sulla , the second wife of her son. Caesar then divorced Pompeia.

literature

• Hans Georg Gundel : Aurelius I. 28. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 765 f.