The ''laudatio Iuliae amitae'' ("Eulogy for Aunt Julia") is a
funeral oration that
Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, an ...
said in 68 BC to honor his dead aunt
Julia, the widow of
Marius. The introduction of this ''
laudatio funebris'' is reproduced in the work ''Divus Iulius'' by the
Roman historian Roman historiography stretches back to at least the 3rd century BC and was indebted to earlier Greek historiography. The Romans relied on previous models in the Greek tradition such as the works of Herodotus (c. 484 – 425 BC) and Thucydides (c. ...
Suetonius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (), commonly referred to as Suetonius ( ; c. AD 69 – after AD 122), was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era
The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τ� ...
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See also
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Poetry by Julius Caesar
References
{{Julius Caesar
Works by Julius Caesar
Funeral orations
Ancient Roman speeches