Aurelia (Mutter Caesars)

Aurelia († 54 BC), sometimes called Aurelia Cotta in modern literature with the addition of her father's cognomen, was the mother of the Roman dictator Gaius Iulius Caesar.

Aurelia was the daughter of Rutilia and Lucius Aurelius Cotta, The consulship. Her brother Lucius reached 95% The Praetur. From her marriage with Gaius Iulius Caesar, The following children were born: Iulia Maior, Iulia Minor (ca. 101-51 BC), and Gaius Iulius Caesar (100-44 BC).

When Caesar was 18 years old, then dictator Sulla ordered that he be divorced from Cornelia, the daughter of his opponent Cinna. Caesar, however, refused to do so, and thus put himself in great danger. But Aurelia and her influential relatives successfully defended him. After Cornelia 68 v. Chr., Aurelia took over the education of her granddaughter Iulia.

It was also Aurelia who, during the Bona Dea festival, Chr., Who took place in the house of her son, discovered Publius Clodius Pulcher, disguised as a woman. This obviously had an affair with her sister-in-law Pompeia Sulla, the second wife of her son. Caesar was then separated from Pompeia. Edit source text

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