Julia (daughter of Titus)

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Portrait bust of Iulias in the Museo Nazionale Romano
Coin portrait of Iulias

Iulia Flavia (* between 64 and 66 in Rome , † around 88) was the only child of the Roman emperor Titus . Her mother, according to Suetonius, was his second wife Marcia Furnilla, from whom he divorced shortly after Iulia's birth, possibly in connection with the fact that her uncle Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus had fallen out of favor with Emperor Nero .

In 69 Iulia's grandfather became Vespasian emperor. Her father carried on the war in Judea . Jerusalem was reportedly captured on Julia's birthday. During her father's principality , Iulia was made Augusta .

Iulia had been 81 with her cousin Titus Flavius Sabinus married, of 82 along with her uncle, the new emperor Domitian , Consul was, but was executed in the same year. Actually, Titus had offered her to his brother as a bride, but he refused her, possibly because he would have preferred to see himself as his brother's equal partner rather than his brother's son-in-law and possible successor. According to Suetonius , he raped her shortly after her marriage while her father was still alive. After Julia became a widow, she lived with Domitian like a "wife with her husband". Although Domitian brought his wife Domitia Longina, banished for adultery, back from exile at the request of the people, Iulia remained by his side and probably also had some influence, because at her request Lucius Iulius Ursus was not executed, but appointed suffect consul 84. Even under Domitian's reign, she was depicted on coins as Augusta and with attributes of an empress.

Iulia died in the late 1980s, according to Suetonius, of an abortion forced by Domitian . She was buried in the Templum Gentis Flaviae , which Domitian had built on the site of the house of Titus Flavius ​​Sabinus , and made a diva . As a goddess she was to watch over the dynasty to which she could not give birth to a biological child.

When Domitian was murdered in 96, their wet nurse mixed his ashes with Julia's.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Suetonius: Titus 4,2 . However, several historians mention the possibility that Titus' first wife Arrecina Tertulla, who died in 64/65, was Iulia's mother.
  2. ^ Suetonius: Titus 5,2 .
  3. ↑ Representation of Iulia Augusta Titi f. on coins of Titus ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fara.cs.uni-potsdam.de
  4. ^ Suetonius: Domitian 10.4 .
  5. ↑ Anthony A. Barrett (Ed.): Lives of the Caesars . Blackwell, Malden, MA / Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-1-405-12755-4 , p. 151.
  6. ↑ Cassius Dio 67.3.
  7. ^ Cassius Dio 67.4.
  8. ^ Suetonius: Domitian 22.3.
  9. ↑ Martial , Epigrams 6.3.
  10. ^ Suetonius: Domitian 17.3.
personal data
SURNAME Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of the Roman emperor Titus
DATE OF BIRTH between 64 and 67
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 88