Aurelia Cotta

Aurelia († 54 BC ), sometimes referred to in modern literature with the addition of her father's Cognomens Aurelia Cotta, was the mother of the Roman dictator Gaius Julius Caesar.

Aurelia was the daughter of Lucius Aurelius Cotta and Rutilia, the BC 119 held the consulate. Her brother Lucius reached the praetorship to 95 BC. From her marriage to Gaius Julius Caesar, who was praetor BC 92, the following children were born: Julia Maior, Iulia Minor (ca. 101-51 BC) and Gaius Julius Caesar ( 100-44 BC ).

When Caesar was 18 years old, told the then dictator Sulla, he should be to divorce Cornelia, the daughter of his enemy Cinna. Caesar refused, however, and thus brought himself into great danger. But Aurelia and their influential relatives defended him successfully. After Cornelia had died 68 BC, Aurelia took over the education of her granddaughter Julia.

Aurelia was also the. During the Bona Dea festival - 62 BC, which took place in her son's house, disguised as a woman Publius Clodius Pulcher discovered This obviously had an affair with her ​​daughter Pompeia Sulla, the second wife of her son. Caesar divorced Pompeia by then.