Julis ceaser biography
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Pompeia (wife of Caesar)
Second or third wife of Julius Caesar
Pompeia (fl. 1st century BC) was either the second or third[i] wife of Julius Caesar.
Julis ceaser biography
Pompeia's parents were Quintus Pompeius Rufus, a son of a former consul, and Cornelia, the daughter of the Roman dictatorSulla. Caesar married Pompeia in 67&#;BC,[1] after he had served as quaestor in Hispania, his first wife Cornelia having died in 69 BC.
In 63 BC, Caesar was elected to the position of the Pontifex Maximus, the chief priest of the Roman state religion, which came with an official residence on the Via Sacra.[2] In 62&#;BC, Pompeia hosted there the festival of the Bona Dea ("good goddess"), which no man was permitted to attend.
However, a young patrician named Publius Clodius Pulcher managed to gain admittance disguised as a woman, apparently for the purpose of seducing Pompeia. He was caught and prosecuted for sacrilege. Caesar gave no evidence against Clodius at his trial, and