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For other Roman Women with this name, see Pompeia.
Pompeia (flourished
1st century BC), daughter of
Quintus Pompeius Rufus, a son of a former
consul, and
Cornelia, the daughter of the
Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla, was the second wife of
Julius Caesar.
Caesar married her in 67 BC, after he'd served as
quaestor in
Hispania, his first wife
Cornelia having died the previous year. Caesar was the nephew of
Gaius Marius, and Cornelia had been the daughter of
Lucius Cornelius Cinna: Marius and Cinna were the leaders of the losing
populares side in the civil war of the 80s BC. His marriage to a granddaughter of Sulla, the winner of that war, perhaps signifies his acceptance into the establishment of Roman politics.
In 63 BC Caesar was elected to the position of
Pontifex Maximus, the chief priest of the Roman state religion, which came with an official residence on the
Via Sacra . In 62 BC Pompeia hosted the festival of the
Bona Dea ("good goddess"), which no man was permitted to attend, in this house. However a young patrician named
Publius Clodius Pulcher managed to gain admittance disguised as a woman, apparently for the purpose of seducing Pompeia. He was caught and prosecuted for
sacrilege. Caesar gave no evidence against Clodius at his trial, and he was acquitted. Nevertheless, Caesar divorced Pompeia, saying that "my wife ought not even to be under suspicion."
Fiction
Pompeia was featured in the
Epistolary novel Ides of March by
Thornton Wilder. The novel mentions the above events, though it transplants them to a short time before the
assassination of Julius Caesar.
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