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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 ]
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.
Mirren portrays Caligula’s wife Caesonia, whose screen time is expanded from less than 20 minutes to almost an hour. Submarine is a hybrid sales, production and distribution company run by Dan ...
With so much new footage, Caligula: The Ultimate Cut certainly rescues the film’s reputation from the trashy doldrums.Helen Mirren’s role for example is greatly expanded, from 17 minutes ...
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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 .
After the deaths of Caligula, his fourth wife Milonia Caesonia, and their daughter Julia Drusilla, she returned from exile on the orders of the new emperor, Livilla's paternal uncle Claudius. Later in 41, she fell out of favour with Messalina (Claudius's third wife) and was charged by her paternal uncle Claudius for having adultery with Seneca ...