#julia caesar

Julia the Elder:

Julia Caesaris is so overlooked it makes me wanna scream. She managed to have a happy marriage in a time when that just wasn't much of a thing. Given Cleopatra spent 3 years as a tween in her house we can only assume she mentored the future Pharaoh or at the very least provided tons of information on the Caesars given that's her gens and Julius is her dad so you just know Cleopatra sponged up all this info and used it a few years later when she went to Caesar for help. She was a patroness of the arts and got her husband into them and her death changes the entire course of western history.

@nakedandasnake and I were watching an Italian Sword and Sandal movie called Caesar the Conqueror. Since it’s been in the public domain for a while, several people had already uploaded the full film to YouTube. Snake usually prefers to watch films with the subtitles on, but the only available captions were the auto generated ones that YouTube provides. We soon learned that YouTube captions aren’t really fine tuned to pick up Ancient Roman and Gaulish names. Here are a few highlights from the night:

She was such a light, like a clear, shining flame...

I'm normally the last person to feel bad for Julius Caesar but... The man lost his mother and his daughter within less than a month of each other. Which means message service being what it was back then, he more than likely heard about both around the same time. Like the same packet of dispatches probably carried both letters. Can you imagine? The woman who stood between you and a dictator and the woman who's currently your main anchor to security in Rome both gone. It can't have been a great time for Julius' mental health and I just wanna give him a hug wrap him in blankets and make him cups of tea and maybe make him promise not to get all dictator-ey...