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The most prominent member was Lucius Cornelius Cinna. His daughter Cornelia was the wife of Julius Caesar, the dictator; but his son, Lucius Cornelius Cinna, praetor until 44 BC, nevertheless sided with the murderers of Caesar and publicly extolled their action. According to some sources, after Caesar's assassination, an angry mob killed a poet and tribune by the same name, Helvius Cinna, having mistaken him for Cornelius. Lucius Cornelius Cinna (Latin: L·CORNELIVS·L·F·L·N·CINNA), a member of the Cinna family of the Cornelii of ancient Rome, was a supporter of Marius in his contest with Sulla. ... Cornelia Cinna minor (94 BC[citation needed] – 69 BC[1] or 68 BC[2]), daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna, one of the great leaders of the Marian party, was married to Gaius Julius Caesar, who would become one of Romes greatest conquerors and its dictator. ... Gaius Julius Caesar [1] (Latin pronunciation ; English pronunciation ; July 12 or July 13, 100 BC or 102 BC–March 15, 44 BC), was a Roman military and political leader and one of the most influential men of classical antiquity. ... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC - 40s BC - 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC 0s Years: 49 BC 48 BC 47 BC 46 BC 45 BC 44 BC 43 BC 42 BC 41 BC... Gaius Helvius Cinna was a poet of the late Roman Republic. ...
The hero of Pierre Corneille's tragedy Cinna (1640) was Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna, surnamed Magnus (after his maternal grandfather Pompey), who was magnanimously pardoned by Augustus after conspiring against him. Pierre Corneille (June 6, 1606–October 1, 1684) was a French tragedian tragedian who was one of the three great 17th Century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. ... Events December 1 - Portugal regains its independence from Spain and João IV of Portugal becomes king. ... For other uses, see Augustus (disambiguation). ...
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Cinna de Corneille : Plot overview (in French)
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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
After serving in the war with the Marsi as praetorian legate, he was elected consul in 87 B.C. Breaking the oath he had sworn to Sulla that he would not attempt any revolution in the state, Cinna allied himself with Marius, raised an army of Italians, and took possession of the city.
Valerius Flaccus became Cinna's colleague, and on the murder of Flaccus, Cn.
In 84, however, Cinna, who was still consul, was forced to advance against Sulla; but while embarking his troops to meet him in Thessaly, he was killed in a mutiny.
Practically nothing is known of his life except that he was the friend of Catullus, whom he accompanied to Bithynia in the suite of the praetor Memmius.
Suetonius, Valerius Maximus, Appian and Dio Cassius all state that, at Caesar's funeral, a certain Helvius Cinna was killed by mistake for Cornelius Cinna, the conspirator.
Cinna's chief work was a mythological epic poem called Smyrna, the subject of which was the incestuous love of Smyrna (or Myrrha) for her father Cinyras, treated after the manner of the Alexandrian poets.
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