Julia Caesaris (sister of Julius Caesar)
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- For other Roman women named Julia Caesaris, see Julia Caesaris
The eldest of the two is sometimes named Julia maior by historians (but not to be confused with Julia the Elder, the daughter of Augustus). Likewise, the youngest of the two sisters of Julius Caesar is sometimes named Julia minor, but not to be confused with Julia the Younger, Augustus' granddaughter.
See family tree of the Julii Caesares pp. [536] - [537] of William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
Eldest of the two sisters of Julius Caesar
The elder of the two sisters of Julius Caesar the dictator, married, but in what order is uncertain, L. Pinarius, of a very ancient patrician family Livy Ab Urbe condita i. 7 [link], and Q. Pedius, by each of whom she had at least one son.App. B. C. iii. 22, 23; Suetonius [Life of Julius Caesar] 83. It is doubtful whether it was the elder or the younger of the dictator's sisters who gave her evidence against P. Clodius, when impeached for impiety in 61 BC.Suet. Caes. 74; Schol. Bob. in Clod. p. 337, Orelli.Youngest of the two sisters of Julius Caesar
Julia (101 BC – 51 BC), the second of Julius Caesar's sisters was Augustus' grandmother.She married Marcus Atius Balbus, a man from a senatorial family. They had 3 daughters Atia Balba Prima, Atia Balba Caesonia (Augustus' mother) and Atia Balba Tertia.
Marcus Atius died in 52 BC. When Julia Caesaris died a year later, Augustus at age 12 delivered her funeral eulogy.
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References
- William Smith Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, [p. 640] - the sisters of Julius Caesar are Nos. 3 and 4 of the Julia's listed in that dictionary.
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