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Ancient Rome

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Calpurnia gens The gens Calpurnia was a plebs, plebeian family at ancient Rome, which first appears in history during the third century BC. The first of the gens to obtain the Roman consul, consulship was Gaius Calpurnius Piso (consul 180 BC), Gaius Calpurnius ...
, an ancient Roman family **
Calpurnia (wife of Caesar) Calpurnia was either the third or fourth wife of Julius Caesar, and the one to whom he was married at the time of his assassination. According to contemporary sources, she was a good and faithful wife, in spite of her husband's infidelity; and, f ...
, last wife of Roman dictator Julius Caesar ** Calpurnia (wife of Pliny), third and last wife of Pliny the Younger and granddaughter of Calpurnius Fabatus *
Lex Acilia Calpurnia ''Lex Acilia Calpurnia'' was a law established during the Roman Republic in 67 BC mandating permanent exclusion from office in cases of electoral corruption. The law was passed by and named for the year's consuls Manius Acilius Glabrio and Gaius ...
(67 BC), a severe law against political corruption *
Lex Calpurnia The ''lex Calpurnia de repetundis'' ("''law of Calpurnius for the recovery of property"'') was a Roman law sponsored in 149 BC by the tribune of the plebs Lucius Calpurnius Piso. It established the first permanent criminal court in Roman his ...
(149 BC), a law that established a permanent extortion court


Science

* ''Calpurnia'' (plant), a genus in the family Fabaceae *Calpurnia, the central crater in a series of " snowman craters" on the asteroid 4 Vesta * 2542 Calpurnia, an asteroid


Arts, entertainment, and media

* Calpurnia (band) * ''Calpurnia'' (play), a 2018 play by Audrey Dwyer *Calpurnia, African-American cook and maid for the Finch family in the novel ''
To Kill a Mockingbird ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' is a 1960 Southern Gothic novel by American author Harper Lee. It became instantly successful after its release; in the United States, it is widely read in high schools and middle schools. ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' ...
'' *Shira Calpurnia, protagonist of three Warhammer 40,000 novels, see List of Warhammer 40,000 novels#Enforcer: Shira Calpurnia *Calpurnia Virginia Tate, protagonist of the novel ''
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate ''The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate'' is a 2009 historical young adult novel by Jacqueline Kelly that received a 2010 Newbery Honor Award. It is the story of a young girl growing up in Texas. Plot In the summer of 1899, Calpurnia Virginia Tate i ...
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People with the given name

* Calpernia Addams, American transgender author and activist {{disambiguation, given name