Iulia (grandmother of Augustus)

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Iulia (* around 101 BC; † 51 BC), also called Iulia Minor , was the younger of the two older sisters of the dictator Gaius Iulius Caesar and the grandmother of the emperor Augustus .

Life

Iulia was a daughter of Gaius Iulius Caesar († 85 BC), who did not get to the consulate due to internal unrest and died relatively early, and Aurelia († 54 BC).

End of 62 BC The infamous Publius Clodius Pulcher invaded the house of Caesar, where the cult of the Bona Dea ("Good Goddess"), organized exclusively by women, was celebrated. Therefore, Clodius Pulcher entered, disguised as a woman, but was discovered anyway. In the following trial for religious crimes, the younger Iulia (and not her older sister Iulia Maior ) said with her mother Aurelia 61 BC. Against Clodius Pulcher, who was not convicted.

Iulia married Marcus Atius Balbus ( praetor around 60 BC), with whom she had two daughters named Atia . The elder Atia married Gaius Octavius (praetor 61 BC) and gave birth to a son, who later became Augustus . After the death of Octavius ​​Atia married 58 BC. Chr. Lucius Marcius Philippus (consul 56 v. Chr.) And simultaneously took Iulia the education of her young grandson until her death 51 v. The only twelve year old boy gave her the funeral oration. The younger daughter of Iulias married Lucius Marcius Philippus (suffect consul 38 BC) .

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Suetonius , Caesar 74.2; Scholia Bobiensia 89, 26ff. ed. Stangl.
  2. ↑ Correctly arranged in time in Suetonius, Augustus 4,1; 8.1; in agreement Quintilian , institutio oratoria 12.6.1; deviating the less reliable Nikolaos of Damascus ( Life of Augustus 3): 54 BC Chr.
  3. ^ Helena Stegmann: Atia [2]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 209.
personal data
SURNAME Julia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Julia Minor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION younger sister of the dictator Caesar, grandmother of Augustus
DATE OF BIRTH around 101 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 51 BC Chr.