Calpurnia Pisonis
Calpurnia Pisonis (
1st century BC), daughter of Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi, was a
Roman woman, third and last wife of
Julius Caesar. They married in
59 BC with no children resulting from the union. According to sources Calpurnia had a premonition of her husband's murder and tried to warn him in vain. In Shakespeare's play, Calpurnia has a dream that a statue of Caesar is flowing with blood as many Romans wash their hands in the blood. She also encouraged Decius Brutus to send word to the senate that Caesar was sick on the day of his death, but Caesar refused to lie. Following Caesar's death on the
Ides of March (
March 15) of
44 BC, Calpurnia delivered all Caesar's personal papers, including will and notes, and most precious possessions to
Mark Antony, one of the new leaders of Rome.She never re-married after the death of Caesar.
Vita Caesaris, chapters 19–24, recounts Caesar's assassination; extracts are quoted in . For an assessment of Nicolaus and his sources see Sihler, E.G.
Annals of Caesar: A Critical Biography with a Survey of the Sources (New York : G. E. Stechert, 1911), pp. 293–4
