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He describes her as a woman of reckless extravagance and wantonness, whom Caligula nonetheless loved passionately and faithfully. [4] According to Cassius Dio , the two entered into an affair some time before their marriage, either late in AD 39 or early in 40, and the emperor's choice of a bride was an unpopular one. [ 5 ]
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Named after her late aunt and her father's favorite sister, Julia Drusilla, Julia was born not long after Caligula married Milonia Caesonia (some sources have her being born on the same day as the marriage). The date of her parents' marriage has not been determined for certain, but it is known that it was sometime in the summer of AD 39. [2]
In 33, Drusilla was married to Lucius Cassius Longinus, a friend of the Emperor Tiberius. [1] She and Cassius are not known to have had any children. [a] After Caligula became emperor in 37, he ordered their divorce and married his sister to his friend Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.
The gens Caesonia was a plebeian family of ancient Rome. They first appear in history during the late Republic , remaining on the periphery of the Roman aristocracy until the time of Nero . Roman empress Milonia Caesonia , the last wife of the emperor Caligula was presumably descended from the Caesonii, as she bore their nomen .
It premiered on Netflix on November 11, 2016. [2] Season 2, "Master of Rome", premiered on July 27, 2018; it is a five-part story about the rise of Dictator Julius Caesar and the fall of the Roman Republic. [3] Season 3, "The Mad Emperor", premiered on Netflix on April 5, 2019, and is a four-part story about Emperor Caligula. [4]
Like a bittersweet scene straight out of "The Notebook," a video has surfaced on social media of a 92-year-old man singing a love song to his dying wife in her hospital room.
Cassius proceeds to murder Caligula's wife Caesonia, and their infant daughter Julia Drusilla, attempting to wipe out the Imperial family once and for all. While the suddenly-leaderless Praetorian Guard are looting the palace, they come upon Claudius, hiding behind a curtain, and proclaim him Emperor over his own protestations.