Pomponia Caecilia Attica
Caecilia Attica was the daughter of Titus Pomponius Atticus Roman knight. My name is explained by the fact that her father was adopted by his uncle Quintus Caecilius. She came by her daughter Agrippina Vipsania from his marriage to Marcus Agrippa Vipsanius in familial contact with the Julio- Claudian dynasty.
Life
Caecilia was previously born in the year 51 BC or a few years as the daughter of Titus Pomponius Atticus Roman knight and his wife Pilia. She was the only child of an influential and very rich father. It was probably in 37 BC by Marcus Agrippa Vipsanius, the close associate of Emperor Augustus, married. The couple was the daughter Vipsania Agrippina born around 33 BC, was married to Tiberius, the stepson of the Emperor Augustus. About Caecilia death is no testimony.
Attica in Cicero
First Attica is mentioned in the letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to his friend Atticus. From 51 BC to November 44 BC, he asks again and again for her and lets her greet. Striking is the jocular, affectionate tone:
" What we know about Caesar? But why these questions are not so important to me! How is our Attica, I want to know. "
Again and again, is also worried by a febrile illness of the girl talk.
Attica in Cornelius Nepos, and Suetonius in Imperial Biographies
Cornelius Nepos, Atticus reported in the biography of the great honor which is Atticus happened to Marcus Agrippa Vipsanius has chosen the daughter of Atticus to wife; the triumvir Mark Antony had arranged this marriage connection. The daughter of this marriage was with Tiberius, the stepson of the Emperor, engaged. She is known under the name Vipsania Agrippina.
Suetonius also narrated in the biography of Tiberius, that Tiberius " Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Agrippa and granddaughter of the Roman knight Caecilius Atticus, Cicero known to the letters are addressed " married.
More tracks and death
Suetonius, in his work On grammarians and rhetoricians, that the grammarian Quintus Caecilius Epirota, a freedman of Atticus, who had taught the daughter of his patron after their marriage to Agrippa, was suspected to have entered too close to her and was discharged. Attica is not more not mentioned here by name and also directly below. 28 BC Agrippa married Claudia Marcella. Whether Attica had already died or if a divorce had taken place, is not known.
Swell
- Marcus Tullius Cicero: Atticus letters. Edited and translated by Helmut box. Dusseldorf / Zurich 1998.
- Cornelius Nepos: biographies of famous men. Edited and translated by Peter Krafft and Felicitas Olef Krafft. Stuttgart 2006.
- Suetonius: Caesar life. Transferring and explained by Max Heinemann. Stuttgart 2001.
- Suetonius: About famous men. Translated by Adolf Stahr and Werner Krenkel. Cologne 2006.