Julia Major (sister of Caesar)
Julia, also known as Julia Major and Julia the Elder, was the elder sister of Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator.[1]
Family
Julia was the first of three children born at
Julia Minor
, though not from other women of gens Julia.
Little is known of Julia's life. She may have married twice, once to a Pinarius, a member of a very ancient
Quintus Pedius, who together with their cousin, Gaius Octavius, the grandson of Julia Minor, were named as Caesar's heirs in the dictator's will.[1][2][3] Titus Pinarius, a friend of Cicero, was probably another grandson, and the brother of Lucius.[1] At least some scholars have proposed that Lucius Pinarius and Quintus Pedius were Julia's sons, and not her grandsons.[4]
Caesar's mother and one of his sisters gave testimony against
See also
Footnotes
- Lucius Pinarius Scarpus, who later served under Antonius, but went over to Octavian and received his pardon before the Battle of Actium.
References
Bibliography
- Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, The Twelve Caesars, "Caesar".
- Appianus Alexandrinus (Appian), Bellum Civile (The Civil War), book iii.
- Scholia Bobiensa, In Clodio, Johann Caspar von Orelli, ed.
- "Julia" (no. 3), in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
- Friedrich Münzer, "Aus dem Verwandtenkreise Caesars und Octavians", in Hermes, vol. 71 (1936).