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Calpurnia, wife of Julius Caesar

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(b. c. 76 BC; alive after Caesar’s death in 44 BC)

BIRTH

Around 76 BC

PLACE

Rome, Italy

DEATH

44 BC or later (documented survival)

PLACE

Unknown

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Calpurnia was Julius Caesar’s wife from 59 BCE until his assassination in 44. Daughter of the politician Lucius Calpurnius Piso, she linked Caesar with an influential Roman family. Ancient writers describe dreams and warnings before the Ides of March, episodes later dramatized in literature. After Caesar’s murder she entrusted his papers and valuables to Mark Antony, with political consequences. Her birth around 76 BCE is approximate, and her eventual death remains unknown.

EARLY LIFE

Calpurnia was probably born around 76 BC, the approximate year given by Denmark’s national encyclopedia. She was a daughter of Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus. In 59 BC she married Julius Caesar, strengthening the alliance between Caesar and her father. Her exact birth date is unknown.

Calpurnia remained loyal to Caesar despite his long absences and his relationship with Cleopatra. She was known for her dignity and modesty.

According to Suetonius and Plutarch, on the night before March 15, 44 BC, Calpurnia dreamed that she was holding Caesar's murdered body and begged him not to attend the senate. He went anyway and was assassinated.

After Caesar's death she handed his papers and money to Mark Antony. She is not known to have remarried, and the date of her death is not recorded.

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DEATH

Calpurnia was Julius Caesar’s wife from 59 BCE until his assassination in 44. Daughter of the politician Lucius Calpurnius Piso, she linked Caesar with an influential Roman family. Ancient writers describe dreams and warnings before the Ides of March, episodes later dramatized in literature. After Caesar’s murder she entrusted his papers and valuables to Mark Antony, with political consequences. Calpurnia remained loyal to Caesar despite his long absences and his relationship with Cleopatra. She was known for her dignity and modesty. After Caesar's death she handed his papers and money to Mark Antony. She is not known to have remarried, and the date of her death is not recorded. The surviving record does not establish when or how Calpurnia died. The date entry, 44 BC or later (documented survival), marks the limit of documented activity rather than a verified death date. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.

POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES

Calpurnia, wife of Julius Caesar, not Pliny the Younger’s wife. Dedicated biographies were not identified; collective studies, related biographies of Caesar and reference are labelled. Five dedicated biographies were not identified. These editorial selections include biographies where available, with personal writings, biographical reference and related studies clearly labelled.

1. Caesars’ Wives: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Roman Empire — Annelise Freisenbruch. [Collective biography] Find on Amazon

2. Caesar: Life of a Colossus — Adrian Goldsworthy. [Related biography of her husband] Find on Amazon

3. Julius Caesar — Philip Freeman. [Related biography of her husband] Find on Amazon

4. Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Élite from Cornelia to Julia Domna — Emily A. Hemelrijk. [Related collective biographical study] Find on Amazon

5. The Oxford Classical Dictionary — Simon Hornblower; Antony Spawforth; Esther Eidinow (editors). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon

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