Skullgrid comments on Caesar's slutting around coming back to haunt him... (AnonHistory)

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This serial adultery does not actually appear to have seriously impaired his relationship with his third wife, Calpurnia, who remained affectionate and fond of him. What a silver-tongued devil Caesar must have been!

I guess once you've seen him cheat on the other two wives, still choose to marry him, then see him cheat on you as well, you gotta have seen this coming.

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[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I imagine there must've been an angle of "men away at war have needs" for many women like Calpurnia

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world [S] 3 points 1 year ago

Perhaps to some degree, but at least in Caesar's case, he was also a philanderer inside of the city of Rome. Notably, he carried on a lifelong affair with the Roman aristocrat Servilia (the half-sister of his inveterate enemy Cato the Younger), and, later in life, her daughter Tertia as well.

Sometimes it seems like there wasn't anyone in Rome Caesar hadn't slept with at some point.

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