Brutus the son of Julius Caesar?

[Skwink]

I have heard from a couple places this might be true. Want to hear you guys weigh-in!

 

[Cynovolans]

Wasn't Brutus like twenty when the relationship between his mother and Julius began?

 

[Godwynn]

Wasn't Brutus like twenty when the relationship between his mother and Julius began?

Julius Caesar was only 15 when Brutus was born. I have no idea when the relationship began, but the only book I've read on the subject seemed to dismiss this with relative ease.

 

[Louis XXIV]

It was a rumor that existed (if not at the time, then relatively soon after). Caesar's "Kai Su, Teknon" (and you, my son) according to Seutonius helped fuel speculation. Odds are it's not true at all, though.

 

[Grimberht]

Ceasar banged Brutus's mother... that about it. It might been Augustus who played the card of the infamous deed of killing a man who consider him has a son. The Augutus's court were masterminds in manipulating the storyline or public opinion has Marc Antony find out a bit later. They might have spead this kind of rumors to gain legitimacy and public support while Brutus was recruiting legions in the aftermath of Ceasar's death.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

AFAIK this whole thing only began with Shakespeare. Patricide makes things more dramatic.

 

[Cynovolans]

AFAIK this whole thing only began with Shakespeare. Patricide makes things more dramatic.

Plutarch wrote of Brutus possibly being the son of Julius about a millenium and a half before Shakespeare.

 

[bombshoo]

In the HBO series Rome it implied Caesarion may have not been Caesar's son. I realize the show took some major historical liberties but what's the historical background on this if any?

 

[Cynovolans]

In the HBO series Rome, it implied Caesarion was not been Caesar's son. I realize the show took some major historical liberties but what's the historical background on this if any?

Caesar was old when he met Cleopatra, but no one ever claimed that Caesarion wasn't the son of Caesar.

EDIT: Nevermind that last part, one of Octavians supporters, Gaius Oppius, wrote a pamphlet that it was impossible for Caesarion to be the son of Caesar.

 

[Lord Baal]

Caesar was old when he met Cleopatra, but no one ever claimed that Caesarion wasn't the son of Caesar.

EDIT: Nevermind that last part, one of Octavians supporters, Gaius Oppius, wrote a pamphlet that it was impossible for Caesarion to be the son of Caesar.

Before or after Octavius had the boy killed?

 

[Cynovolans]

Before or after Octavius had the boy killed?

Before, he wrote it just after Julius Caesar was killed.

 

[Louis XXIV]

Extremely likely to be Octavius' propaganda, though.

 

[7ronin]

Caesar was not the biological father of Brutus. However, because of his relationship with Brutus's mother, Caesar certainly treated Brutus with a certain fatherly affection and concern.

 

[Lord Baal]

Extremely likely to be Octavius' propaganda, though.

"There cannot be two Caesars."

 

[Dachs]

The Empire sucked before it had two (plus) Caesars.