Julia Caesaris (sister of Julius Caesar)#First elder sister of Julius Caesar

Called Iulia to distinguish it from their eponymous younger sister in modern research also Iulia Maior was the elder sister of Roman dictator Gaius Julius Caesar.

Life

Iulia is mentioned by name in any ancient source. Their existence can only be inferred from a passage in Suetonius, in which three men who used Caesar as his heir, as whose sororum nepotes: be called ( literally meaning " grandson of the Sisters "). One of them was the future Augustus, great-nephew of Caesar over its Atius with Marcus Balbus married (younger ) sister and her daughter Atia. The plural sororum shows that the other two persons named, Lucius Quintus Pinarius and Pedius, descended from a second sister of Caesar. If they were like Augustus actually great-nephew of the dictator enables researchers to draw any conclusions on iulias pull away as they could be derived analogous to Augustus also of daughters iulias.

However, the research chronological reasons, namely the well-known career of Quintus Pedius, thought it possible that Pedius (and probably Pinarius ) contrary to the wording in Suetonius not great-nephew, but nephew of Caesar were. According to this reconstruction Iulia had been received two marriages, but their order is unknown: with a Pinarius ancient patrician family and a Marcus or Quintus Pedius. Each of her husband she gave birth to at least one, namely those mentioned in Suetonius, son.