Julia

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Some of the famous women of the gens Julia (who therefore had this name) were the following.

1. Wife of Marius and sister of Julius Caesar's father.

2. Sister of Julius Caesar and mother of Atia, who was the mother of the emperor Augustus.

3. Daughter of Julius Caesar and his first wife Cornelia, and wife of Pompey. She died in childbirth in 54 BC.

4. Daughter of Augustus and Scribōnia; she married her cousin, Augustus' nephew, M. Marcellus, in 25 BC, and after his death in 23 married in 21 M. Agrippa, by whom she became the mother of Gaius and Lucius Caesar, Julia, Agrippina, and Agrippa Postumus. Her third marriage, after Agrippa's death, to Tiberius, took place in 11 BC. In 2 BC Augustus finally learned of her adulteries and banished her to a small island; in AD 4 she was allowed to move to Rhegium. Scribonia, who had been divorced from Augustus since 39 BC, voluntarily shared her exile. She died in AD 14.

5. Livia, the wife first of Ti. Claudius Nero and afterwards of Augustus. Under the latter's will she was adopted into the Julian gens and renamed Julia Augusta.

1 Died 54 B.C., daughter of Julius Caesar and wife of Pompey. By her grace and tact she maintained the bond between her father and her husband. After her death the two statesmen became open enemies.

2 39 B.C.–A.D. 14, daughter of Augustus and wife, in turn, of Marcus Claudius Marcellus (d. 23 B.C.), Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, and Tiberius. Her infidelities caused her banishment by Augustus to Pandataria Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Soon after Tiberius became emperor, she died of starvation.

3 18 B.C.–A.D. 28, daughter of Julia and Agrippa (see above); wife of Lucius Aemilius Paullus. Because of her licentious conduct, she was banished by Augustus to the island of Tremerus off the coast of Apulia, where she died.