How Every Wife of Julius Caesar Died

Caesar married three women, slept with the wives of at least four senate colleagues, fathered a son with the queen of Egypt, and was probably also seeing the queen of Mauretania on the side. The cleanup column on all this is what nobody talks about. One of these women was buried by the people of Rome over the consuls' objections. One died in a basket of figs. Most of the rest just vanished from the historical record after Caesar was done with them. Twenty-something minutes on every woman in his life and how she got out, in chronological order from his teenage engagement to Cleopatra. How Every Wife of Julius Caesar Died