Julia Minor (grandmother of Augustus): Difference between revisions

{{short description|Second eldest sisterSister of Julius Caesar and grandmother of Augustus}}

{{for|herthe great-great-granddaughter of Augustus|Julia the Younger}}

|name image = Julia Minor, sister of Caesar.jpg

|image spouse = Atia[[Marcus BalbaAtius Caesonia.jpgBalbus]]

|mother birth_date = [[Aurelia Cotta]] =

'''Julia''', also known as '''Julia Minor''' and(before '''Julia100 theBC Younger''',– (101–5151 BC) was the second of two daughters of [[Gaius Julius Caesar (proconsulgovernor of Asia)|Gaius Julius Caesar]] and [[Aurelia Cotta(mother of Caesar)|Aurelia]]. She was thean elder sister of the dictator [[Julius Caesar|Gaius Julius Caesar]], and the maternal grandmother of Rome's first emperor [[Augustus]].

==SiblingsBiography==

It is not known if it was the elder or the younger of the dictator's sisters who gave evidence against [[Publius Clodius Pulcher]] when he was impeached for impiety in 61 BC. Julia and her mother gave the legal courts a detailed account of the affair he had with [[Pompeia (wife of Julius Caesar)|Pompeia, Julius Caesar's wife]]. Caesar divorced Pompeia over the scandal.<ref>Suet.Suetonius, ''Caes.''"The Life of Caesar", 74; Schol.Scholia Bob.Bobiensia, ''inIn Clod.Ciceronis In Publio Claudio'', p. 337, (ed. Orelli).</ref>

===Marriage and offspring===

Julia married [[Marcus Atius|Marcus Atius Balbus]], a praetor and commissioner who came from a senatorial family of [[plebs|plebeian]] status. Julia bore him three (or two, according to other sources) daughters and possibly a son named [[Marcus Atius Balbus (proconsul of Sardinia)|Marcus Atius Balbus]].<ref>[http://www.strachan.dk/family/attius.htm TheAttius secondstemma]. daughter,By knownStrachan</ref><ref>{{Cite asbook|title=Suetonius: Life of Augustus|last=Wardle|first=D.|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2014|isbn=9780199686452|pages=92}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Ten Studies in Tacitus|last=Syme|first=Ronald|publisher=Clarendon P.|year=1970|isbn=9780198143581|pages=63}}</ref> The [[Atia Balba(mother Caesoniaof Augustus)|second daughter]] was the mother of [[Octavia Minor]] (fourth wife of triumvir [[Mark Antony]]) and of Rome’s first Emperor [[Augustus]]. Caesonia's younger sister,Her [[Atia (wife of L. Philippus consul 38 BC)|Atiayoungest Tertiadaughter]], was the wife of [[Lucius Marcius Philippus (consul 38 BC)|Lucius Marcius Philippus]]., Theirand they had a daughter, named [[Marcia (cousin of Augustus)|Marcia]],.<ref>{{Cite laterbook|title=All marriedThings toJulius [[PaullusCaesar: FabiusAn Maximus]]Encyclopedia andof boreCaesar's himWorld aand son, [[Paullus Fabius Persicus]].Legacy|last=Lovano|first=Michael|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2014|isbn=9781440804212|pages=72}}</ref>

Another Atia, who may have been her daughtergranddaughter orthrough her husband'sson daughter(probably withfrom a womanmarriage namedto a [[Claudia (gens)|Claudia]],) wasmay have been married to Gaius Junius Silanus. TheirThis son,Atia alsowas namedthe mother of [[Gaius Junius Silanus]], who became consul in AD 10. Though, Atia may have been the emendation of "[[Appia (gens)|Appia]]". Sons of the consul in 10Silanus were [[Appius Junius Silanus]], (consul in 28), [[Decimus Junius Silanus (senatorexile)|Decimus Junius Silanus]], (who was involved in the disgrace of [[Julia the Younger]],) and [[Marcus Junius Silanus (consul 15)|Marcus Junius Silanus]], (''consul suffectus'' in 15).<ref name=RonaldSyme>{{cite book | last1 = Syme | first1 = Ronald | authorlink1author-link1 = Ronald Syme | title = The Augustan Aristocracy | publisher = Oxford Clarendon Press | year = 1989 | location = Oxford | page = 194 | url =| isbn = 978-0-19-814731-2 | quote = A third Atia can now be conjured up.}} (Limited Previes: [https://books.google.com/books?id=fj8oQ4lzteIC&lpg=PA193&vqq=Atia&hl=de&pg=PA194#v=onepage&q=%22A%20third%20Atia%20can%20now%20be%20conjured%20up%22 "Atia, wife of Marcius Philippus (suff. 38 BC)"] and [https://books.google.com/books?id=fj8oQ4lzteIC&lpg=PA193&vqq=Atia&hl=de&pg=PA194#v=onepage&q=%22A%20third%20Atia%20can%20now%20be%20conjured%20up%22 "A daughter (Atia) would supply a wife for C. Silanus"] of this page in [[Google Books]])</ref>

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