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By the time of Cicero and Julius Caesar, divorce was relatively common and "shame-free", the subject of gossip rather than a social disgrace. [47] Valerius says that Lucius Annius was disapproved of because he divorced his wife without consulting his friends; [ 48 ] that is, he undertook the action for his purposes and without considering its ...
In the past it was commonly accepted that Caesar and Cossutia were married, but more recent opinions differ. Among those arguing that Caesar was never married to Cossutia are Ludwig Friedrich Otto Baumgarten-Crusius, Napoleon III, Charles Merivale, James Anthony Froude, Theodore Ayrault Dodge, William Warde Fowler, Ernest Gottlieb Sihler, Adolf von Mess [], and John Carew Rolfe. [4]
By the time of Cicero and Julius Caesar, divorce was relatively common and "shame-free", the subject of gossip rather than a social disgrace. [71] Valerius says that Lucius Annius was disapproved of because he divorced his wife without consulting his friends; that is, he undertook the action for his own purposes and without considering its ...
Julius Caesar. The Commentaries on the Gallic War is Caesar's first-hand account of the Gallic Wars (58–50 BCE), written during or shortly after those wars. His first-hand acquaintance with the Gauls (as well as his access to earlier, now-lost, works on the Celts) makes the work an invaluable source for Gaulish religion, although not an unproblematic one.
Gaius Julius Caesar [a] (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and subsequently became dictator from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC.
Calpurnia was either the third or fourth wife of Julius Caesar, and the one to whom he was married at the time of his assassination.According to contemporary sources, she was a good and faithful wife, in spite of her husband's infidelity; and, forewarned of the attempt on his life, she endeavored in vain to prevent his murder.
Publius Cornelius Dolabella (c. 85/69 – 43 BC, also known by his adoptive name Lentulus) [5] was a Roman politician and general under the dictator Julius Caesar.He was by far the most important of the patrician Cornelii Dolabellae [6] but he arranged for himself to be adopted into the plebeian Cornelii Lentuli so that he could become a plebeian tribune. [7]
Fictional 15th-century depiction of Julius Caesar's birth. The career of Julius Caesar before his consulship in 59 BC was characterized by military adventurism and political persecution. Julius Caesar was born on 12 July 100 BC into a patrician family, the gens Julia, which claimed descent from Iulus, son of the legendary Trojan prince Aeneas ...