Calpurnia (wife of Julius Caesar)

Calpurnia  was a Roman noblewoman of the 1st century BC. C., daughter of Lucio Calpurnio Piso Cesonino, and the third and last wife of Julius Caesar, although it is possible that this marriage was actually the fourth because the number of Julius Caesar's wives differs depending on the sources.

Life

Calpurnia and Caesar were married in 59 B.C. C. No children resulted from the union. According to sources, Calpurnia had a premonition of her husband's murder and tried to warn her to no avail. In the play Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare, Calpurnia had a dream in which a statue of Caesar was bleeding while many Romans washed their hands in the blood. She even encouraged Decimus Junius Brutus Albino to tell the senate that Caesar was ill the day he died, but Caesar refused to lie. After Caesar's death on the Ides of March, on March 15, 44 B.C. C., Calpurnia gave all of her personal writings, including the will and Caesar's most desired possessions, to Marco Antonio, one of the new leaders of Rome. She never remarried after Caesar's death.

Cinema and television

A version of Calpurnia was played by Haydn Gwynne in the HBO series Rome. Just as Valeria Golino played her in the miniseries Julio César broadcast in 2002.