![]() ![]() You find only two female characters in Julius Caesar. Shakespeare's suggestion is that while a balance can be struck and an ideal attained, it is ultimately unworkable. At other times, characters like Brutus gain a great deal from incorporating the feminine into their own personalities. By the end of the play, Brutus' character is more fully-rounded but is the world he leaves us better off? Can it be when the world left behind is entirely without women? Shakespeare takes the opportunity in Julius Caesar to say both "yes" and "no." At times, characters take on so-called feminine characteristics and lose their ability to rule well. It has been reclaimed partially because his character, defined at the beginning of the play as entirely masculine, has taken on some feminine characteristics, such as grief over his wife's death, love for his friend, and tender concern for his followers. Brutus' reputation, damaged as it has been by his participation in the conspiracy, and by his rather self-deluding rationale for it, has been reclaimed. ![]() The Roman tribe Aurelia was named in her honor."This was a man" is Antony's final tribute to Brutus. Caesar's reason for the divorce was that "Caesar's wife, like all Caesar's family, must be beyond suspicion". Caesar divorced Pompeia Sulla over this incident without any real proof she had committed adultery with Clodius. Aurelia later appeared as a witness during the trial, along with her daughter Julia, testifying that she had ordered Clodius to leave. ![]() Clodius was later charged with the crime of sacrilege by Lucius Lentulus since his trespass caused the interruption of the sacrifice. The two may have had certain improper relations before, but was subdued by Aurelia's close watch upon the women's residence. In 62 BC, during the Bona Dea festival held at Caesar's house, one of Aurelia's maids discovered that Publius Clodius had infiltrated the house while disguising as a woman, in order to start or continue an affair with her second daughter-in-law Pompeia. Caesar subsequently married Pompeia Sulla, granddaughter of Sulla. Aurelia became involved in the petition to save her son, defending him along with her brother Gaius Cotta.Īfter Cornelia's death in childbirth, Aurelia raised her young granddaughter Julia and managed her son's households. Young Caesar firmly refused, which put himself at great risk from Sulla. When the younger Caesar was about 18, he was ordered by the then dictator of Rome, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, to divorce his young wife Cornelia Cinna, daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna who had supported Sulla's archenemy Marius. Her husband, the elder Gaius Caesar, was often away, so the task of raising their son fell mostly on Aurelia's shoulders. Highly intelligent, independent and renowned for her beauty and common sense, Aurelia was held in high regard throughout Rome.Īurelia and her family were very influential in her son's upbringing and security. Plutarch described her as a woman of discretion. The historian Tacitus considered her an ideal Roman matron and thought highly of her, because she offered her children the best opportunities of education. Gaius Julius Caesar (100 – 44 BC), the Dictator perpetuo.Julia Minor (? – 51 BC), wife of Marcus Atius Balbus and grandmother of emperor Augustus.Julia Major (? – ? BC), grandmother of Lucius Pinarius and Quintus Pedius.Three of her brothers were consuls: Gaius Aurelius Cotta in 75 BC, Marcus Aurelius Cotta in 74 BC and Lucius Aurelius Cotta in 65 BC.Īurelia married a praetor Gaius Julius Caesar. Publius Rutilius Rufus was her maternal uncle. Her mother Rutilia, was a member of the gens Rutilia. The family of the Aurelii Cottae was prominent during the Roman Republican era. Her father was consul in 119 BC and her paternal grandfather of the same name was consul in 144 BC. 120 BC – July 31, 54 BC) was the mother of the Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar.Īurelia was a daughter of Rutilia and Lucius Aurelius Cotta or his brother, Marcus Aurelius Cotta. ![]()
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