Julia Minor (101 BC-51 BC)

For other Roman women named Julia Caesaris, see Julia Caesaris.

Julia Caesaris was born 9999 in Italy to Gaius Julius Caesar and Aurelia Cotta .

Julia is the name of two daughters of praetor Gaius Julius Caesar and Aurelia Cotta, the parents of dictator Gaius Julius Caesar. The sisters were born and raised in Rome.

The elder of the two is sometimes named Julia Major (Major Latin for the elder) by historians (but not to be confused with Julia the Elder, daughter of Emperor Augustus). Likewise, the younger of the two sisters of Julius Caesar is sometimes named Julia Minor, (Minor Latin for the younger) but not to be confused with Julia the Younger, Augustus‘ first granddaughter.

First elder sister of Julius Caesar

The elder of the two sisters of Julius Caesar the dictator is only known from a passage in which the biographer Suetonius mentions her two grandsons,^[1] Lucius Pinarius and Quintus Pedius. If the two men were actually her sons, as has been conjectured,^[2] she was married, in what order is uncertain, to a Pinarius, of a very ancient patrician family^[3], and a Pedius. 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 impeached for impiety in 61 BC.^[4] Nothing else is known about the life of the elder sister.

Second elder sister of Julius Caesar

Julia (101 BC-51 BC) was the second sister of Julius Caesar. This Julia married Marcus Atius Balbus, a praetor and commissioner who came from a senatorial family of plebs status. Julia bore Balbus three daughters:

Atia Balba Prima - mother of Quintus Pedius who served as a general and consul.
Atia Balba Caesonia - mother of Octavia Minor (fourth wife of triumvir Mark Antony) and of first Emperor Augustus.
Atia Balba Tertia - mother of Lucius Pinarius, who was a political supporter of Mark Antony.

Julia and her mother had given the court a detailed and truthful account about the affair between Pompeia (her sister-in-law) and politician Publius Clodius Pulcher. Caesar divorced Pompeia over the scandal. Balbus died in 52 BC and Julia died a year later. Julia’s youngest grandson and grandchild then known as Octavian (future Emperor Augustus) at age 12 to her honor delivered her funeral oration as her funeral.

Sources

Suetonius - The Twelve Caesars - Caesar and Augustus.
http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1748.html

Notes

^ Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar 83. See also App. B. C. iii. 22, 23.
^ Friedrich Münzer, Aus dem Verwandtenkreise Caesars und Octavians, in: Hermes, vol. 71, 1936, p. 222–230.
^ Livy Ab Urbe condita i. 7 [1]
^ Suet. Caes. 74; Schol. Bob. in Clod. p. 337, Orelli.

Children

Offspring of Marcus Atius and Julia Caesaris
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Atia Balba Prima
Atia Balba Caesonia
Atia Balba Tertia

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[1] Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar 83. See also App. B. C. iii. 22, 23.

[2] Friedrich Münzer, Aus dem Verwandtenkreise Caesars und Octavians, in: Hermes, vol. 71, 1936, p. 222–230.

[3] Livy Ab Urbe condita i. 7 [1]

[4] Suet. Caes. 74; Schol. Bob. in Clod. p. 337, Orelli.

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