Когда родилась дочь Цезаря? // When The Daughter Of Caesar Was Born? (original) (raw)
2017, Studia Historica
The article deals with the problem of the date of birth of Julia, daughter of Caesar. Only one ancient author, namely, Suetonius, gives us an evidence. According to him, Julia was born soon (mox) after the marriage of Caesar and Cornelia. As the marriage had in all probability taken place in 84–83 BC, that would mean that Julia was born «soon» after this date. In that case she would be more than twenty when married to Pompey, her first and only husband, in 59 B.C. No ancient author (including Suetonius himself) gives any comment on such a strange situation. And as there can be no doubts for the date of the marriage of Pompey and Julia, some scholars question the date of her birth and put it to 79–76 B.C. Other researchers still date the birth of Julia to 83–83 BC without explaining why she married for the first time in such an age. The author of the article dates Julia’s birth as 83–81 B.C. citing Suetonius, and suggests two reasons for such a late marriage. In 71(69) –59 B.C. when she had reached the age of twelve (legal age for spousal), marriage with her first fiancée Caepio was delayed both because of the financial difficulties of her father Caesar (on which we do have a lot of evidence) and due to that fact, that during this period either Caesar, or Caepio, or even both of them simultaneously were absent from Rome. And that is why the first and only marriage of Julia took place so late – in her twenties. But there is no need to ignore the evidence of Suetonius, or to argue that he had made a mistake.
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