General Notes

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Known as Rome's civic personification of vice, adultery & vileness. Banished for life by Augustus Caesar to a Mediterranean island.
Julia's mother wasScribonia, who was divorced by Augustus when the child was a few days old. Julia was brought up strictly, her every word and action being watched. After a brief marriage to Marcus Marcellus, who died in 23 BC, Julia wedded Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Augustus' chief lieutenant, in 21 BC. Their
two eldest sons wereadopted by Augustus in 17 BC and given the names Gaius and Lucius Caesar. Juliahad a third son, Agrippa Postumus, and two daughters, Julia and Agrippina. With Agrippa's death in 12 BC, Augustus' wife, Livia, was able to convince him tofavour her own sons by a former marriage,
Tiberius and Drusus, as possible successors; and Augustus forced Tiberius to divorce his wife and marry Julia in 11BC. It was an unwanted and unhappy marriage for both of them. Julia began to
lead a promiscuous life, her adulteries becoming common knowledge in Rome.
After an infant son by Julia perished in 6 BC, Tiberius went into voluntary exile,leaving Julia in Rome. Finally Augustus discovered how Julia was behaving. After threatening her with death, he banished her to Pandataria, an island off thecoast of Campania, in 2 Bc. She was later moved to Rhegium. Upon becoming
emperor, Tiberius withheld her allowance, and Julia eventually died of malnutrition.
Julia's guilt is not doubted, but she was a witty and intelligent woman andwas loved by the people. Augustus showed her no mercy, however, calling her a"disease in my flesh."
SOURCE: "Julia" Encyclopedia Britannica Online