Julia Minor (grandmother of Augustus)

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Julia Minor
Atia Balba "Tertia"
Parent(s)Gaius Caesar
Aurelia

Julia Minor (before 100 BC – 51 BC) was the second of two daughters of Gaius Julius Caesar and Aurelia. She was an elder sister of the dictator Julius Caesar, and the maternal grandmother of Rome's first emperor Augustus.

Biography

Bona Dea scandal

It is not known if it was the elder or the younger of the dictator's sisters who gave evidence against

Pompeia, Julius Caesar's wife. Caesar divorced Pompeia over the scandal.[1]

Marriage and offspring

Julia married

Marcia.[5]

Another Atia, who may have been her granddaughter through her son (probably from a marriage to a Claudia) may have been married to Gaius Junius Silanus. This Atia was the mother of Gaius Junius Silanus who became consul in AD 10. Sons of Silanus were Appius Junius Silanus (consul in 28), Decimus Junius Silanus (who was involved in the disgrace of Julia the Younger) and Marcus Junius Silanus (consul suffectus in 15).[6]

Balbus died in 51 BC along with Julia. At age 12, Octavius, her youngest grandson, the future Emperor Augustus, delivered her funeral oration.

References

  1. ^ Suetonius, "The Life of Caesar", 74; Scholia Bobiensia, In Ciceronis In Publio Claudio, p. 337 (ed. Orelli).
  2. ^ Attius stemma. By Strachan
  3. ISBN 9780199686452
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  4. ISBN 9780198143581
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  5. ISBN 9781440804212
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  6. ISBN 978-0-19-814731-2. A third Atia can now be conjured up. (Limited Previes: "Atia, wife of Marcius Philippus (suff. 38 BC)" and "A daughter (Atia) would supply a wife for C. Silanus" of this page in Google Books
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Sources

  • Suetonius - The Twelve Caesars - Caesar and Augustus.
  • Julia, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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