Caecilia Attica

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Caecilia Attica was the daughter of the Roman knight Titus Pomponius Atticus . Her name is explained by the fact that her father was adopted by his uncle Quintus Caecilius . Through her daughter Vipsania Agrippina from her marriage to Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, she came into family contact with the Julian-Claudian dynasty .

Life

Caecilia was born in 51 BC. BC or a few years earlier as the daughter of the Roman knight Titus Pomponius Atticus and his wife Pilia. She was the only child of an influential and extraordinarily wealthy father. It was believed to have been born in 37 BC. Married to Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, the close collaborator of the emperor Augustus . The couple was given around 33 BC. The daughter Vipsania Agrippina was born, who was married to Tiberius , the stepson of the emperor Augustus. There is no evidence of Caecilia's death.

Attica at Cicero

Attica is first mentioned in the letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to his friend Atticus. From 51 BC Until November 44 BC. Chr. He asks again and again after her and sends her regards. The joking, tender tone is striking:

“What do we know about Caesar? But why are these questions that are not so important to me! I would like to know how our Attica is doing. "

Again and again, however, the girl is worried about a febrile illness.

Attica in Cornelius Nepos and in Suetons Kaiserbiographien

In the biography of Atticus, Cornelius Nepos reports on the great honor that Atticus received: Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa has chosen Atticus' daughter as his wife; the triumvir Mark Antony had mediated this marriage. The daughter from this marriage was betrothed to Tiberius, the emperor's stepson. It is known as Vipsania Agrippina .

Even Suetonius preserved in the Tiberius biography that Tiberius "Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Agrippa, and granddaughter of Caecilius Atticus Roman knight, addressed to the Cicero's famous letters" married.

More traces and death

Suetonius reports in his work On Grammarians and Rhetors that the grammarian Quintus Caecilius Epirota , a freedman of Atticus, who had taught the daughter of his patron after her marriage to Agrippa, was suspected of offending her and was dismissed. Attica is not directly mentioned by name here and also not in the following. 28 BC Agrippa married Claudia Marcella . It is not known whether Attica had already died or whether a divorce had taken place.

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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero: Atticus letters. Edited and translated by Helmut Kasten. Düsseldorf / Zurich 1998.
  • Cornelius Nepos: Biographies of Famous Men. Edited and translated by Peter Krafft and Felicitas Olef-Krafft. Stuttgart 2006.
  • Suetonius : Life of Caesars. Transferred and explained by Max Heinemann. Stuttgart 2001.
  • Suetonius: About famous men. Translated by Adolf Stahr and Werner Krenkel. Cologne 2006.

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Cicero, Letters to Atticus 5:19 .
  2. ^ Cicero, Letters to Atticus 13:28 .
  3. ↑ Cornelius Nepos, Atticus 12, 1f.
  4. ↑ Cornelius Nepos, Atticus 19, 4.
  5. ^ Suetonius, Tiberius 7, 2.
  6. ^ Suetonius, De grammaticis 16.
personal data
SURNAME Caecilia Attica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Attica, Caecilia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of the Roman knight Titus Pomponius Atticus
DATE OF BIRTH around 51 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 1st century BC Chr.