What is "pompeia"

Pompeia ( fl. 1st century BC) was the second wife of Julius Caesar. Her parents were Quintus Pompeius Rufus, a son of a former consul, and Cornelia, the daughter of the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.

Caesar married Pompeia in 67 BC, after he had served as quaestor in Hispania, his first wife Cornelia having died the previous year in giving birth to her son who was stillborn. Caesar was the nephew of Gaius Marius, and Cornelia had been the daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna so that they were related to both the leaders of the losing populares side in the civil war of the 80s BC.

In 63 BC Caesar was elected to the position of Pontifex Maximus, the chief priest of the Roman state religion, which came with an official residence on the Via Sacra. In 62 BC Pompeia hosted the festival of the Bona Dea ("good goddess"), which no man was permitted to attend, in this house. 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 he was acquitted. Nevertheless, Caesar divorced Pompeia, saying that "my wife ought not even to be under suspicion." This gave rise to a proverb, sometimes expressed: "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion."

Pompeius (fem. Pompeia), sometimes anglicized as Pompey, is the nomen of the gens Pompeia, an important family of ancient Rome from the Italian region of Picenum, which lies between the Apennines and the Adriatic. The name may refer to any person bearing it, with a list of the most famous below:

Famous individuals with the nomen Pompeius include:

• Lucius Pompeius, a military tribune in 171 BC, in the army of Publius Licinius Crassus (consul 171 BC), who was in the war against King Perseus of Macedon
• Quintus Pompeius, various politicians of this name who lived during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire
• Aulus Pompeius, two politicians of this name who lived during the Roman Republic
• Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus, Roman historian
• Sextus Pompeius, relatives of Pompey the Great
• Pompeius Strabo, father of Pompey the Great
• Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great), the famous Roman general and politician
• Gnaeus Pompeius, the eldest son of Pompey the Great
• Sextus Pompey, the youngest son of Pompey the Great
• Gnaeus Pompeius Rufus, suffect consul in 31 BC.
• Quintus Pompeius Macer, praetor that lived in Emperor Tiberius’ reign
• Pompeius Urbicus, knight that lived in Emperor Claudius’ reign
• Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, first husband of Roman princess Claudia Antonia and a son-in-law of Emperor Claudius
• Gaius Pompeius Longinus Gallus, among the consuls of 49
• Pompeius Aelianus, former quaestor that lived in Emperor Nero’s reign
• Pompeius, certain guard colonel that lived in Emperor Nero’s reign
• Lucius Pompeius Plotius, Roman Governor of Lower Germany in 57
• Marcus Pompeius Silvanus, former Roman Governor of Africa in the 1st century
• Lucius Pompeius, father of Roman Empress Pompeia Plotina
• Quintus Pompeius Falco, politician that lived in the 2nd century

Pompeia is the name of several ancient Roman women.

Pompeia may also refer to:

• Pompéia, a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil
• Raul Pompeia (1863–1895), Brazilian writer
• Pompeia, an 1889 recreation of a structure from ancient Pompeii

Pompeia was the name of several ancient Roman women of the gens Pompeia.

• Pompeia, was the daughter of Quintus Pompeius consul 141 BC, who married a certain Gaius Sicinius
• Pompeia (sister of Pompeius Strabo), sister of General and Consul Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, who was the father to Pompey
• Pompeia (sister of triumvir Pompey), sister of Pompey and daughter of General and Consul Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo
• Pompeia, the wife of Publius Vatinius, a tribune in 59 BC
• Pompeia (wife of Julius Caesar), the second wife of Julius Caesar
• Pompeia (daughter of Pompey the Great) by his third wife, Mucia Tertia
• Pompeia (daughter of Sextus Pompeius), daughter of political rebel Sextus Pompeius and Scribonia
• Cornelia Pompeia, daughter of consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna by his wife, Pompeia
• Pompeia Macrina, a woman exiled by the Roman Emperor Tiberius in 33 AD
• Pompeia Paulina, wife of Seneca the Younger
• Pompeia Plotina Claudia Phoebe Piso, the wife of Roman Emperor Trajan
• Pompeia Macrina, one of the mothers-in-law of Roman historian and Senator Pliny the Younger

Pompeia (flourished 2nd and 1st century BC) was a Roman woman. Pompeia was born and raised into a noble family in Picenum (modern Marche & Abruzzo) a rural district in Northern Italy, off the Adriatic Coast.

Pompeia’s mother was a woman called Lucilia. Lucilia’s family originated from Suessa Aurunca (modern Sessa Aurunca) and she was a sister of satire poet Gaius Lucilius. Lucilius was a friend of Roman general Scipio Aemilianus Africanus.

Her paternal grandfather was Gnaeus Pompeius, while her father was Sextus Pompeius. Pompeia had two elder brothers Sextus Pompeius and Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo. Through Strabo, she was a paternal aunt to triumvir Pompey and his sister Pompeia.

Pompeia married Marcus Atius Balbus (148 BC-87 BC), a senator of plebs status from Aricia (modern Ariccia). Pompeia and Balbus had a son a younger Marcus Atius Balbus in 105 BC. Her son married Julia Minor, the younger of two sisters of dictator Gaius Julius Caesar. The younger Balbus and Julia had three daughters. Among Pompeia’s descendants was the first Roman Emperor Augustus.

Pompeia (flourished late 2nd century BC & 1st century BC) was a Roman noblewoman of plebs status. Her mother was an unnamed Roman woman and her father was the consul and general Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo. Pompeia’s brother was the triumvir Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus or Pompey the Great. She is the paternal aunt to Gnaeus Pompeius, Sextus Pompeius and Pompeia Magna, the children of her brother.

She was born and raised in a senatorial family in Rome. Pompeia married the Roman politician Gaius Memmius. Memmius was an ally to her brother. Memmius commanded under Pompey in Sicily. Memmius in Sicily served as a pro praetor. In 81 BC, Memmius served as a quaestor into Spain. In the war against Quintus Sertorius, Memmius was killed near Saguntum in 75 BC.

Very little is known on Pompeia’s life. It appears that Pompeia and Memmius had no children.

Pompeia Magna (about 42 BC - ?) was the daughter and only child of political rebel Sextus Pompey and Scribonia. Pompeia was the only child born to the sons of triumvir Pompey. Her paternal grandparents were Pompey and Mucia Tertia. Her maternal grandparents were consul of 34 BC, Lucius Scribonius Libo and an unnamed woman from the gens Sulpicius, the family that the Roman Emperor Galba descended from on his paternal side. Her parents are distantly related. Sextus was a great uncle to her maternal grandfather, which Libo was a son to Cornelia Sulla. Cornelia Sulla was a daughter to Pompeia Magna and Faustus Cornelius Sulla. Pompeia Magna and Sextus Pompeius were siblings.

In 39 BC, at the peace of Misenum, Sextus Pompey had betrothed Pompeia to Marcus Claudius Marcellus, the nephew to the heir of Roman Dictator Julius Caesar, Octavian and a son to Octavian’s elder sister Octavia Minor. Pompeia and Marcellus in the end never married. She accompanied her father as they fled into Anatolia in 36 BC. After this moment, Pompeia is not mentioned again in Roman sources.