Talk:Cornelia Metella

Cornelia v. Caecilia
I'm unclear what is meant by what "her proper name" would have been. The sources I know, such as Plutarch's Lives and the Bellum civile of Lucan, call her Cornelia. If this is consistent, it might indicate that despite whatever naming practices may have been conventional, this woman had a distinctive identity reflected in her name. I see elsewhere (in the currently unreferenced article on her dreadful father) that she was sometimes called Quinta Pompeia (yuck!) because she was the fifth wife of Pompey. Cynwolfe (talk) 12:58, 26 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I've now added a note from Jerzy Linderski, who states that Cornelia is in fact never called Caecilia in any extant sources. This point he adduces in support of his emphatic argument that her father's so-called adoption by Metellus Pius was not really an adoption. Cynwolfe (talk) 18:52, 18 April 2009 (UTC)