Julia Caesaris (Classical Latin: IVLIA•CAESARIS) is the name of all women in the Julii Caesares patrician family (a subdivision of the Julii family), since feminine names were their father's gens and cognomen declined in the female form. (Male members of the Julii Caesares include Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus.) Several Juliae Caesares are cited by the ancient sources, notably the following:
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Immediate relations of Julius Caesar
Paternal aunt
Julia Caesaris (d. 69 BC) was the paternal aunt of Julius Caesar and the wife of Gaius Marius.
Cousin
Julia Caesaris (approx. 104 BC – after 39 BC), known in the sources as Julia Antonia to distinguish her from the others, was the wife of Marcus Antonius Creticus and mother of Gaius and Lucius Antonius and Mark Antony, the triumvir.
Sisters
Julius Caesar had two elder sisters and were both called Julia Caesaris. Not much is known, on the elder sister. The younger sister (101 BC-51 BC), became the grandmother of Augustus.
Daughter
Julius Caesar's only legitimate child to survive to adulthood, married strategically to Pompey to cement the First Triumvirate, died in childbirth in 54 BC.
Immediate relations of Augustus
Augustus' daughter
Julia Caesaris (October 39 BC-AD 14), also known as Julia the Elder, was the only child of Augustus, from his second marriage with Scribonia.
Augustus' granddaughter
Daughter of the previous, a.k.a. Julia Caesaris minor (or "the Younger"), a.k.a. Vipsania Julia.
Offspring of Drusus the Younger
Daughter of Drusus
Julia (5 - 43), was the daughter of Julius Caesar Drusus and Livilla. She was the elder sister to Tiberius Gemellus and the biological granddaughter of Tiberius. Her birth name is Claudia Livia Julia Helen Caesaris. She is also known as Julia Drusi Caesaris Filia and Livia Julia.
Offspring of Germanicus
Germanicus (a member of the gens Claudius by birth) was adopted in the family of the Julii Caesares.
Eldest daughter of Germanicus
Julia Agrippina or Agrippina Minor (Minor Latin for the younger, 15 - 59). Despite the adoption of her father, Agrippina the Younger is rarely indicated by the Julia Caesaris reference.
Youngest daughter of Germanicus
Julia Livilla or Julia Livia (18 - late 41 or early 42) is also rarely indicated by the Julia Caesaris reference.
Fictional
- Julia Caesaris, niece of Julius Caesar in the SPQR series
