51. On Funerals and Curses

Julius Caesar suffers a crushing series of blows upon his return from Britain as he receives word that multiple members of his direct family have died. Back in Rome the funeral is anything but normal. Crassus is becoming insufferable at the excitement of his Syrian command and Cato may or may not have engaged in wife-trafficking.

 

Note #1: While the translation of Plutarch I have says the Roman crowd seized Julia’s “corpse”, it’s possible she had already been cremated by that point in which case they would have been seizing her funeral urn.

 

Correction/Note #2: Cato did have children by another woman, Atilia. Atilia was Cato's wife before he married Marcia and the children he had by Atilia were adults by the time of the Civil War (his daughter by Atila, Porcia, was already married to Bibulus). Therefore, I still believe the daughters Cato needed looking after when he fled Rome were the daughters of Marcia since these daughters would have been younger and therefore would need a mother to look after them.

 

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The March of History is a biographical history podcast on Julius Caesar and the fall of the Roman Republic. Not only does it cover Julius Caesar's life in depth, it also explores the intricate world of ancient Rome and all of the key players of the late Roman Republic including Cicero, Pompey, Crassus, Cato, Clodius, Mark Antony, Brutus, a young Augustus (Octavian), Marius, Sulla and (though not Roman) Cleopatra.