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for Aemilia, Cornelia's mother; their marriage followed soon after and provides the earliest possible date for their daughter's birth. The latest date for Cornelia's marriage to young Crassus would be 54 BC, before he left to join his father for the ill-fated Parthian campaign; Cornelia is
112:. Landing on the shore, Pompey was murdered with Cornelia watching from the ship. After Pompey's death, she fled to Cyprus with Sextus and afterwards returned to Italy with Caesar's permission to bury Pompey's ashes on his Alban estate. 228:, broadcast in 2005, Cornelia is portrayed by actress Anna Patrick. Unlike the historic Cornelia, this portrayal sees her as middle aged, and as having two children probably from her first marriage, not with Pompey. 199:("Julius Caesar in Egypt"), where she pleads with Caesar to spare her husband; he is about to grant her plea, but Pompey was already killed by the Egyptians. She is the title and main character in 369: 769: 118:
described her as a beautiful woman of good character, well read, and a skilled player of the lyre. She was also very well educated in geometry and philosophy.
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unlikely to have been younger than 15 at the time, and so her latest year of birth would be 69 BC. See
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name because she was born before her father's adoption, which was a legal formality.
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points out that in 74 BC, Cornelia's father was the romantic rival of
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in her honour for services to that city. After Pompey's defeat at
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Imperium Sine Fine: T Robert S Broughton and the Roman Republic
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The public lives of ancient women (500 BCE – 650 CE)
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between Pompey and Caesar, Cornelia and Pompey's son
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Index

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica
gens Cornelia
inscription
Pergamon
Publius Licinius Crassus
Marcus Licinius Crassus
Julius Caesar
Gaul
Syria
Battle of Carrhae
Pompey
civil war
Sextus Pompey
Aegean
Lesbos
Pergamum
Pharsalus
Mytilene
Ptolemaic Egypt
Plutarch

Charles-Antoine Coypel
Adrienne Lecouvreur
Pierre Corneille
The Death of Pompey
Comédie-Française
Paris

Annelies Burmeister
Giulio Cesare in Egitto

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