Talk:Pompeia (wife of Julius Caesar)
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Was her father's praenomen Gnaeus or Quintus? I thought it was the former, but someone apprently thought it was the latter, and I admit that I could be wrong. Kuralyov 06:42, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Blood relationship to Caesar?
I removed the statement that her mother and Caesar were first cousins, since this statement depends on Sulla's first wife being Julia, an otherwise not attested aunt of Caesar. This identity has been proposed by the novelist Colleen McCullough, but is not attested in any ancient source, see Talk:Lucius Cornelius Sulla.--193.175.194.60 12:26, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Depiction in Ides of March
In this novel we read Pompeia's letters to Clodia, where she seems silly and is easily manipulated by Clodia. However, another character observes that she is not unintelligent per se, but Ceasar has an urge to educate people, yet is a rotten teacher and fails to recognise her intelligence.
There is a lot of interesting character development (testimonies of servants/slaves) too, but as this article is pretty short I didn't think I should distort it with a long discussion of an imaginary depiction of Pompeia. I've put this here instead. ChristineD 21:04, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Pompeia Sulla"
Please don't change the article back to call her "Pompeia Sulla" - she could not possibly have borne that name. Romans took their names from their fathers, not their maternal grandfathers. If Pompeia had a cognomen, and no source I'm aware of says she did, it would have been "Rufa" or "Rufina" after her father, Pompeius Rufus. --Nicknack009 00:52, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
