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Julia Antonia DE ROME-DE ROME
- Preferred Name: Julia Antonia DE ROME-DE ROME[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Alternate Name: DE ROME
- Gender: F
- Death: AFT 39 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy at LATI: N1.9051 LONG: E2.4971 with note: Wikiwand: Julia (mother of Mark Antony)
- FSID: LNDP-FQX
- Birth: 104 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy at LATI: N1.9051 LONG: E2.4971 with note: Wikiwand: Julia (mother of Mark Antony)
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Spouses : Marcus Antonius Creticus & Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura
Children :
. Antonia
. Marcus Antonius
. Gaius Antonius
. Lucius Antonius
Parents : Lucius Julius Caesar (father) & Fulvia (mother)
Julia (104 – after 39 BC) (sometimes also called "Julia Antonia" to distinguish her from other Juliae) was the mother of the triumvir general Mark Antony. She was the daughter of Lucius Julius Caesar (the consul of 90 BC) and Fulvia. She and her brother Lucius Julius Caesar (who was consul in 64 BC) were born and raised in Rome. Julia was a third-cousin of Julius Caesar (their great-grandparents Gaius and Sextus Julius Caesar were siblings).
Julia married Marcus Antonius Creticus, a man of a senatorial family. Their sons were the triumvir Mark Antony, Gaius Antonius and Lucius Antonius. Because of their kinship through her, Gaius Julius Caesar was obliged to promote the political careers of her sons, despite his distaste for their father and his generally low opinion of their abilities. After Julia's first husband died about 70 BC, she married Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura, a politician who in 63 BC was involved in the Catilinarian conspiracy and was executed on the orders of Cicero.
Plutarch describes her as one of "most nobly born and admirable women of her time". The following clause from Plutarch describes her relationship with her first husband:
His father was Antony, surnamed of Crete, not very famous or distinguished in public life, but a worthy good man, and particularly remarkable for his liberality, as may appear from a single example. He was not very rich, and was for that reason checked in the exercise of his good nature by his wife. A friend that stood in need of money came to borrow of him. Money he had none, but he bade a servant bring him water in a silver basin, with which, when it was brought, he wetted his face, as if he meant to shave, and, sending away the servant upon another errand, gave his friend the basin, desiring him to turn it to his purpose. And when there was afterwards a great inquiry for it in the house, and his wife was in a very ill humour, and was going to put the servants one by one to the search, he acknowledged what he had done, and begged her pardon.
— Plutarch, Antony 1
Elsewhere Plutarch illustrates her character with an episode from the proscription of 43 BC, during the Second Triumvirate:
His uncle, Lucius Caesar, being closely pursued, took refuge with his sister, who, when the murderers had broken into her house and were pressing into her chamber, met them at the door, and spreading out hands, cried out several times. "You shall not kill Lucius Caesar till you first dispatch me who gave your general his birth!" and in this manner she succeeded in getting her brother out of the way, and saving his life.
— Plutarch, Antony 20
During the Perusine War (modern Perugia) between 41 BC-40 BC, Julia left Rome, although Octavian (future Roman Emperor Augustus) treated her with kindness. She never trusted Sextus Pompeius. When Sextus Pompeius was in Sicily, Julia had sent to Greece for Antony, a distinguished escort and convoy of triremes. After the reconciliation of the triumvirs, Julia returned with Antony to Italy in 39 BC and was probably present at the meeting with Sextus Pompeius at Misenum.
Preferred Parents:
Father: Lucius Julius Caesar III, b. 12 JUL 135 BC in Roma, Roma, Lazio, Italia d. 87 BC in Roma, Lazio, Italy
Mother: Fulvia Crossutia , b. 26 APR 122 BC in Rome, Italy d. DEC 86 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy
Family 1: Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura, b. 114 BC d. 5 DEC 63 BC in executed in Rome, Italy
Family 2: Marcus Antonius Creticus Octavia II, b. um 0108 v. Chr. in Ancient Rome d. 74 BC in Crete
- m. ABT 88 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy
- Marcus Antonius III, b. 14 JAN 83 BC in Roma, Roman Republic d. 1 AUG 30 BC in Alexandria, Egypt
Sources:
- Title: Julia Roman Empire in the Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015
Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.ca/collections/9289/records/22714963;
Note: Name: Julia Roman Empire
Gender: f (Female)
Birth Place: Roma, Lazio, Italy
Death Place: Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy
Father: Caius Julius Praetor Roman Empire
Mother: Aurelia Vera Roman Empire
Spouse: Marcus Antonius II Creticus Praetor Roman Empire
Children: Marcus Antonius Rome
Atia Roman Empire
Julia (Sister Roman Empire
Mark Antony Roman Empire
Quintus Marcius Roman Empire
URL: https://www.genealogieonline.n...
- Title: Julia Roman Empire in the Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015
Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.ca/collections/9289/records/24901919;
Note: Julia Roman Empire
Gender: f (Female)
Birth Place: Roma, Roma, Lazio, Italy
Death Place: Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy
Father: Caius Julius Praetor Roman Empire
Mother: Aurelia Vera Roman Empire
Spouse: Marcus Antonius Orator Roman Empire
Children: Marcus Antonius II Creticus Praetor Roman Empire
URL: https://www.genealogieonline.n...
- Title: Wikiwand: Julia (mother of Mark Antony)
Author: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Julia_(mother_of_Mark_Antony);
Note: Julia (104 – after 39 BC) or Julia Antonia (known from the sources to distinguish her from other Juliae) was a daughter of Lucius Julius Caesar, the consul of 90 BC, and mother of the future triumvir and deputy of Caesar, Mark Antony. She was a sister of the Lucius Julius Caesar who was consul in 64 BC.
Biography
Her mother is unknown. She was born and raised in Rome. Julia was a third-cousin of Julius Caesar (their great-grandparents Gaius and Sextus Julius Caesar were siblings).
Julia married Marcus Antonius Creticus, a man of a senatorial family. Their sons were the triumvir Mark Antony, Gaius Antonius and Lucius Antonius. Because of their kinship through her, Gaius Julius Caesar was obliged to promote the political careers of her sons, despite his distaste for their father and his generally low opinion of their abilities. After Julia’s first husband died in 74 BC, she married Publius Cornelius Lentulus (Sura), a politician who in 63 BC was involved in the Catilinarian conspiracy and was executed on the orders of Cicero.
Julia had raised her sons through her marriages. Plutarch describes her as one of “most nobly born and admirable women of her time,” though most other sources are considerably less flattering (and likely more accurate). The following clause from Plutarch describes her relationship with her first husband:
"His father was Antony, surnamed of Crete, not very famous or distinguished in public life, but a worthy good man, and particularly remarkable for his liberality, as may appear from a single example. He was not very rich, and was for that reason checked in the exercise of his good nature by his wife. A friend that stood in need of money came to borrow of him. Money he had none, but he bade a servant bring him water in a silver basin, with which, when it was brought, he wetted his face, as if he meant to shave, and, sending away the servant upon another errand, gave his friend the basin, desiring him to turn it to his purpose. And when there was afterwards a great inquiry for it in the house, and his wife was in a very ill humor, and was going to put the servants one by one to the search, he acknowledged what he had done, and begged her pardon.
— Plutarch, Antony 1"
Elsewhere Plutarch illustrates her character with an episode from the proscription of 43 BC, during the Second Triumvirate:
"His uncle, Lucius Caesar, being closely pursued, took refuge with his sister, who, when the murderers had broken into her house and were pressing into her chamber, met them at the door, and spreading out hands, cried out several times. 'You shall not kill Lucius Caesar till you first dispatch me who gave your general his birth!' and in this manner she succeeded in getting her brother out of the way, and saving his life.
— Plutarch, Antony 20"
During the Perusine War (modern Perugia) between 41 BC-40 BC, Julia left Rome, although Octavian (future Roman Emperor Augustus) treated her with kindness. She never trusted Sextus Pompeius. When Sextus Pompeius was in Sicily, Julia had sent to Greece for Antony, a distinguished escort and convoy of triremes. After the reconciliation of the triumvirs, Julia returned with Antony to Italy in 39 BC and was probably present at the meeting with Sextus Pompeius at Misenum.
- Title: Ancestry Family Trees
Author: Ancestry Family Tree
- Title: Wikiwand: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
Author: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology;
Note: The "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology" (1849, originally published 1844 under a slightly different title) is an encyclopedia/biographical dictionary. Edited by William Smith, the dictionary spans three volumes and 3,700 pages. It is a classic work of 19th-century lexicography. The work is a companion to Smith's "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities" and "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography."
Authors and scope
The work lists thirty-five authors in addition to the editor, who was also the author of the unsigned articles. The other authors were classical scholars, primarily from Oxford, Cambridge, Rugby School, and the University of Bonn, but some were from other institutions. Many of the mythological entries were the work of the German expatriate Leonhard Schmitz, who helped to popularise German classical scholarship in Britain.
With respect to biographies, Smith intended to be comprehensive. In the preface, he writes:
"The biographical articles in this work include the names of all persons of any importance which occur in the Greek and Roman writers, from the earliest times down to the extinction of the Western Empire in the year 476 of our era, and to the extinction of the Eastern Empire by the capture of Constantinople by the Turks in the year 1453."
Much of the value of the "Dictionary" consists not only in the depth and detail of the individual articles, but in the copious and specific citations to individual Greek and Roman writers, as well as modern scholarship from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century. The articles frequently note variant traditions, disagreements among the authorities, and the interpretations of modern scholars. However, due to the variable numbering systems used in different editions of classical works, and the difficulty of recognizing typographical errors in citations, the original sources should still be checked. Many of the Dictionary's articles have been referred to in more recent works, and Robert Graves has been accused of "lifting his impressive-looking source references straight, and unchecked" from it when writing "The Greek Myths."
Samuel Sharpe thought Edward Bunbury had plagiarised his work, as he wrote of in his diary entry on 3 September 1850:
"I certainly felt mortified on reading the articles on the Ptolemies in Dr. Smith's "Dictionary of Classical Biography." They were all written by E. H. Bunbury with the help of my "History of Egypt," and with-out any acknowledgment, though he even borrowed the volume from my brother Dan for the purpose."
Use and availability today
The work is now in the public domain, and is available in several places on the Internet. While still largely accurate (only rarely have ancient texts been emended so severely as to warrant a biographical change), much is missing, especially more recent discoveries (such as Aristotle's "Constitution of the Athenians," or the decipherment of Linear B) and epigraphic material. Perhaps more seriously, the context in which ancient evidence is viewed has often changed in the intervening century and a half.
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