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for women, though it is believed that the choice of name was to differentiate her from her two aunts. If her mother was Licinia then Mucia had also two younger half-brothers from her mother's second marriage,
994: 186:, a leading and soon-to-be dominant figure in Roman politics. She was the mother of all three of Pompey's known children. Pompey divorced her in 61 BC, either for 740: 219: 703: 283:'s loyalty and to do that, he arranged the latter's marriage to Mucia around 79 BC. This marriage resulted in three children: elder son 266:. Following his defeat the Younger Marius committed suicide; if the marriage had gone ahead, this would have left Mucia a childless widow. 157: 284: 228: 100: 292: 222:, in a scandal mentioned by several sources. Her name, Mucia Tertia, would suggest that she was a third daughter, according to the 327: 232: 191: 81: 1118: 663: 554: 334:. In 39 BC Mucia, at the earnest request of the Roman people, went to Sicily to mediate between her son Sextus Pompey and 331: 288: 120: 105: 1267: 864: 1257: 1150: 961: 341:(the future emperor Augustus). This made her the first Roman woman recorded as fulfilling an official diplomatic role. 713: 692: 673: 608: 385:(35:6-7), where the young man eludes capture from Sulla's supporters at the house of his father-in-law, the pontifex 801: 769: 386: 211: 170: 138: 1213: 1262: 974: 806: 326:", the name of a Greek mythological character who was known to have seduced a king's wife. Mucia next married 1011: 928: 735: 202:
in 39 BC and maintaining a relationship of mutual respect with Octavian in the years that followed.
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Between 76 and 61 BC, Pompey spent most of the time away from Rome, campaigning in Hispania against
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the Younger, consul in 82 BC, at a very young age. This was a time of civil war between the
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in 31 BC, though her date of death is unknown. Octavian treated her with great respect.
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The evidence for the marriage of Mucia Tertia to the Younger Marius occurs in Plutarch's
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but is otherwise uncertain, she may have been Licinia who divorced her father to marry
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and remained active in Roman politics, leading peace talks between her son
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who lived in the 1st century BC. She was the daughter of
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in 95–94 BC, a statue in his honour was erected at
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During her father's time as governor of the province of
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Index

Rome
Italia
Roman Republic
Julius Caesar
Pompey
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus
Gnaeus Pompeius
Pompeia Magna
Sextus Pompey
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus
Quintus Mucius Scaevola
Roman
matrona
Quintus Mucius Scaevola
pontifex maximus
Pompey
adultery
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus
Sextus Pompey
Octavian
Quintus Mucius Scaevola
Cato the Younger
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos
Roman naming convention
Quintus Metellus Celer
Quintus Metellus Nepos
Asia
Olympia
Gaius Marius
Marian regime

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