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Encyclopedia > Julia Antonia (wife of Antonius Creticus, mother of triumvir)

Julia Caesaris (104 BC - 40 BC) or Julia Antonia (known from the sources to distinguish her from the other Juliae Caesares) was a daughter to consul Lucius Julius Caesar III and a sister to consul Lucius Julius Caesar IV. The identity of her mother is unknown and she was born in Rome. Julia was a distant cousin to Julius Caesar. Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC - 100s BC - 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC Years: 109 BC 108 BC 107 BC 106 BC 105 BC - 104 BC - 103 BC 102 BC... 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 10s BC Years: 45 BC 44 BC 43 BC 42 BC 41 BC 40 BC 39 BC 38 BC 37... There were five Romans who had the name Lucius Julius Caesar of Julii Caesares family. ... A bust of Julius Caesar. ...


Julia married Marcus Antonius Creticus, a man of a senatorial family. Their sons were Mark Antony (the triumvir), Gaius Antonius and Lucius Antonius. Through her, Julius Caesar was able to promote the political careers of her sons. Julia’s husband died in 74 BC and married Publius Cornelius Lentulius Sura a politician, who in 63 BC was involved in the Catiline conspiracy and was executed on the orders of Cicero. Marcus Antonius Creticus (lived 1st century BC) was a Roman politician, member of the Antonius family. ... For his relatives and other people with similar names, see Marcus Antonius (disambiguation). ... Gaius Antonius (died 42 BC) was the second son of Marcus Antonius Creticus and Julia Antonia, and thus, younger brother of Marcus Antonius, triumvir and enemy of Caesar Augustus. ... Lucius Antonius (1st century BC) was the younger brother and supporter of Marcus Antonius, a Roman politician. ... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC - 70s BC - 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC Years: 79 BC 78 BC 77 BC 76 BC 75 BC - 74 BC - 73 BC 72 BC 71... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC - 60s BC - 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC Years: 68 BC 67 BC 66 BC 65 BC 64 BC 63 BC 62 BC 61 BC 60... Catiline (Lucius Sergius Catilina) (108 BC-62 BC) was a Roman politician of the 1st century BC who is best known for the Catiline (or Catilinarian) conspiracy, an attempt to overthrow the Roman Republic, and in particular the power of the aristocratic Senate. ... Marcus Tullius Cicero (standard English pronunciation ; Classical Latin pronunciation ) (January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was an orator and statesman of Ancient Rome, and is generally considered the greatest Latin orator and prose stylist. ...


Julia had raised her sons, through her marriages. Plutarch describes her as one of ‘most nobly born and admirable women of her time’. The following clause from Plutarch - Antony, Clause 1 describes her relationship with her first husband.


His father was Antony, surnamed of Crete, not very famous or distinguished in public life, but a worthy good man, and particularly remarkable for his liberality, as may appear from a single example. He was not very rich, and was for that reason checked in the exercise of his good nature by his wife. A friend that stood in need of money came to borrow of him. Money he had none, but he bade a servant bring him water in a silver basin, with which, when it was brought, he wetted his face, as if he meant to shave, and, sending away the servant upon another errand, gave his, friend the basin, desiring him to turn it to his purpose. And when there was, afterwards, a great inquiry for it in the house, and his wife was in a very ill-humour, and was going to put the servants one by one to the search, he acknowledged what he had done, and begged her pardon.


More on her character from Plutarch - Antony, Clause 20, regarding the proscription of 43 BC, during the Second Triumvirate: The Second Triumvirate is the name historians give to the official political alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Octavian, later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony. ...


His uncle, Lucius Caesar, being closely pursued, took refuge with his sister, who, when the murderers had broken into her house and were pressing into her chamber, met them at the door, and spreading out hands, cried out several times. "You shall not kill Lucius Caesar till you first despatch me who gave your general his birth;" and in this manner she succeeded in getting her brother out of the way, and saving his life.


Julia, along with her Fulvia (her daughter-in-law) and her son Lucius all died from illness in October 40 BC in Sicyon Greece. The three had fled from Rome, because Fulvia had quarrelled with Octavian and Fulvia wanted revenge from Octavian. Fulvia (died 40 BC) was a Roman matron remembered by her ambition and political activity, in a time when women were expected to stay home and live with virtue and modesty, according to Roman morals. ... Sicyon was an ancient Greek city situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea. ...


Source: Plutarch - Antony Plutarch Mestrius Plutarchus (c. ...



 

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