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Pompeia (wife of Caesar)

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managed to gain admittance disguised as a woman, apparently for the purpose of seducing Pompeia. He was caught and prosecuted for
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Nothing specific is known about her life after the divorce, but it has been proposed that she may have married
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Plutarch refers to Pompeia, Cornelia's successor, as Caesar's
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series, the theory that she remarried to Publius is depicted.
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wife, implying that Cornelia was his second, implying that
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Like Caesar's wife, a politician should be above suspicion
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1st century BC) was either the second or third wife of
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In 63 BC, Caesar was elected to the position of the
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Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum
Rome
Rome
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
Quintus Pompeius Rufus
Cornelia
fl.
Julius Caesar
Quintus Pompeius Rufus
consul
Cornelia
Roman dictator
Sulla
quaestor
Hispania
Cornelia
Pontifex Maximus
Via Sacra
Bona Dea
Publius Clodius Pulcher
sacrilege
proverb
Publius Vatinius
Robert Harris
Lustrum
Colleen McCullough
Masters of Rome
Pompeia gens

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