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Children of Julius Caesar

Adopted son Octavian


Born Gaius Octavius but better known as Octavian was Caesar's sister Julia Minor's daughter Atia's son and was adopted by him in his will. Upon his adoption the young man of 18 changed his name to Gaius Julius Caesar Octavanius, and finally Augustus during his reign as Emperor of Rome.

Relationship with Juba II
After the death of Juba I of Numidia at his own hands, Caesar took in his four year old son Juba II and raised the boy in his own home, similar to a ward. Caesar's reasons for doing this are not stated in any ancient sources but Duane W. Roller has speculated that it may have been because the boy was descended from King Masinissa who was an aly of Rome during the Second Punic War. Juba II was featured in Caesar's Triumph parade and was described by Plutarch as "the happiest captive ever captured".

By the time of Caesar's death custody of Juba II wen't to Caesar's closest living legal relative, his adopted son Octavian (now known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later Emperor Augustus), his guardianship was not challanged in Rome. He was subsecuently raised in the Augustan household and as an adult married to Cleopatra Selene II and became King of Mauretania.

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Publius Cornelius Dolabella (consul 44 BC)

Agrippa

By Servilia
All of Servilia's three other children, Marcus Junius Silanus, Junia Prima and Junia Secunda have also been suggested to possibly be Caesar's children, this would be plausible if Caesar and Servilia indeed were intimate from their youths since even before Servilia's first child was born, like Suetonius and Appian claims.

By Cleopatra
The Suda (10th-century Byzantine lexicon)

Historical claimants
Julius Classicus, Julius Sabinus claimed to be the great-grandson of Caesar by

Folklore
Religious context; Amun

Oberon Saint George

Helis

Modern fringe theories
Pseudohistorians within the Christ myth theory sphare sometimes apply revisionist ideas about Julius Caesar and the Ancient Egyptians which claims that they and Caesar invented Christianity and Jesus to ensure rulership for their offsprings. For example Charles N. Pope in his book Jesus Among the Julio-Claudians claims that Octavian (called Octavius, and also claimed to be named Helcias, and to be the same person as Ptolemy XIII) and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (stated to be the same person as Ptolemy XIV) were actually the eldest sons of Caesar, born in 62 BC and 63 BC respectivly to Berenice IV of Egypt (also claimed to be Fadia and Alfidia), the older sister of Cleopatra VII. He also claims that Caesarion was actually two sons of Cleopatra VII (whom he claims was the same person as Octavia Minor and Scribonia) and Caesar, the eldest born in 47 BC, actually being Anthyllus (also called Asinius) and the younger being Marcus Claudius Marcellus (whom he claims was also the same person as Sejanus, Philip I and Juba II) whom was born in 44/43 BC and the "main" Caesarion in history; besides the two Caesarions he also claims that Alexander Helios was their son and that he and Cleopatra Selene II were not twins.

Other fringe Christ-related theories often focus on either Caesarion or another unknown child of Cleopatra VII and Caesar being the forebearers of the historical Jesus of Nazareth in one way or another. Ralph Ellis argues in his several works that Caesarion had a twin sister named Thea Musa Ourania that would later become Musa, Queen of the Parthian Empire and that she was the maternal grandmother of Jesus Christ. Brian Starr as well thinks that when Caesar died Cleopatra was pregnant with a daughter named Cleopatra VIII that was sent to be married to an "Eastern Prince" and that the two became the parents of Sain Joseph the father of Jesus, he also claims in his book Heretical Christianity Exposed Thru Genealogy that Caesar had a son in 40 BC named Marcus Julius Antonius Gnaeus Piso Caesar with a woman supposedly named Lucia Calpurnia Caesonia Piso, who was somehow also related to Jesus. Another claim regularly parroted within pseudohistorical circles is that Cleopatra of Jerusalem who married Herod the Great was actually the daughter of Cleopatra VII and Caesar, born after his death. All these theories make little sense as Cleopatra VII would have seen little reason to keep another surviving child of the Roman dictator a secret.

Cultural depictions
In the novel The Shards of Heaven Juba II is depicted as Caesar's adopted son.

Based on mythical figures
Sabinus

Orgetorix

Fictional children
Ben Kane Romulus and Fabiola