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Encyclopedia > Pompeia Sulla

Pompeia Sulla (fl. 1st century BC) was the daughter of Quintus Pompeius Rufus and Cornelia Sulla (the daughter of the Roman Dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix). (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 1st century BC starts on January 1, 100 BC and ends on December 31, 1 BC. An alternative name for this century is the last century BC. The AD/BC notation does not use a year zero. ... Pompeius (fem. ... Cornelia Sulla (born around 109BC) was one of the few Roman women mentioned in Roman Republican sources. ... Dictator was a political office of the Roman Republic. ... This page is about the Roman dictator Sulla, for the Brythonic goddess sometimes called Sulla, see Sul. ...


She became the second wife of Julius Caesar sometime between the death of his first wife (c. 69 BC) and 63 BC. Although beautiful and charming, Pompeia appears to have lacked intelligence, and her marriage to Caesar appears to have been mainly for political reasons. Caesar, elected pontifex maximus (chief priest) that year, hosted the Bona Dea ceremony at his residence; the rites for the Mother Earth goddess Bona Dea were highly sacred and only women were permitted to witness them. During the ceremony, the volatile tribune Publius Clodius Pulcher, a well-known troublemaker disguised as a woman, entered into his house, presumably to carry out an affair with her. Although it would appear Pompeia herself was free of any wrongdoing, the disreputable social circle she mixed in counted against her, and she was publicly disgraced. Shortly after, Caesar divorced her, saying no more than the cryptic phrase "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion." A bust of Julius Caesar. ... 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: 74 BC 73 BC 72 BC 71 BC 70 BC 69 BC 68 BC 67 BC 66... 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... Alternate meanings: see Pontifex (disambiguation) In Ancient Rome, the Pontifex Maximus was the high priest of the collegium of the Pontifices, the most august position in Roman religion, open only to a patrician, until 254 BC, when a plebeian first occupied this post. ... In Roman mythology, Bona Dea (the good goddess) was a goddess of fertility, healing, virginity and women. ... Tribune (from the Latin: tribunus; Greek form tribounos) was a title shared by several elected magistracies and other governmental and/or (para)military offices of the Roman Republic and Empire. ... Publius Clodius Pulcher (born around 92 BC, murdered January 18, 52 BC), was a Roman politician, chiefly remembered for his feuds with Milo and Marcus Tullius Cicero. ...


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