Tertulla
Family: Roman · Role: wife of Marcus Crassus · First appears: Julius Caesar 50
In Julius Caesar 50, Tertulla was the wife of Marcus Crassus and was named among the high-born women with whom Julius Caesar had affairs: “Tertulla, the wife of Marcus Crassus.” In Augustus 69, Tertulla was mentioned in words addressed to Augustus: “as when you read this letter, you are not in dalliance with Tertulla, Terentilla, Rufilla”.
By Vespasian 2, Tertulla was Vespasian’s grandmother on his father’s side and cared for his education at the family estate at Cosa.
Relationship record
Life events
- Julius Caesar debauched Tertulla, the wife of Marcus Crassus.(Julius Caesar 50)
- With: Julius Caesar
- “Tertulla, the wife of Marcus Crassus”
- Vespasian was educated under Tertulla’s care at the family estate.(Vespasian 2 · 📍 Cosa)
- With: Vespasian
- “and was educated under the care of Tertulla, his grandmother by the father’s side, upon an estate belonging to the family, at Cosa.”
Julius Caesar 50
- married with Marcus Crassus “among whom were Posthumia, the wife of Servius Sulpicius; Lollia, the wife of Aulus Gabinius; Tertulla, the wife of Marcus Crassus; and Mucia, the wife of Cneius Pompey.”
- with Julius Caesar (Caesar had a sexual affair with Tertulla.) “It is admitted by all that he was much addicted to women, as well as very expensive in his intrigues with them, and that he debauched many ladies of the highest quality; among whom were Posthumia, the wife of Servius Sulpicius; Lollia, the wife of Aulus Gabinius; Tertulla, the wife of Marcus Crassus; and Mucia, the wife of Cneius Pompey.”
- courtship with Julius Caesar “he debauched many ladies of the highest quality; among whom were Posthumia, the wife of Servius Sulpicius; Lollia, the wife of Aulus Gabinius; Tertulla, the wife of Marcus Crassus”
Augustus 69
- with Augustus (interaction) “as when you read this letter, you are not in dalliance with Tertulla, Terentilla, Rufilla”
Vespasian 2
- younger kin: Vespasian “Tertulla, his grandmother by the father’s side”
- ward: Vespasian “was educated under the care of Tertulla, his grandmother by the father’s side, upon an estate belonging to the family, at Cosa.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.