Pomponia Caecilia Attica

Deceased Person

2024 –

84

Who is Pomponia Caecilia Attica?

Pomponia Caecilia Attica or Caecilia Pomponia Attica, was the daughter of Cicero's Epicurean friend and eques, knight Titus Pomponius Atticus. Her mother, Caecilia Pilea/Pilia, daughter of Pileus/Pilius, was a maternal granddaughter of Marcus Licinius Crassus, a member of the First Triumvirate. Atticus and Pilea/Pilia were married in 58 BC/56 BC, when Atticus was already 53/54 years old, and she died after 12 years of happy marriage. Caecilia's aunt, Pomponia, married Cicero's younger brother Quintus Tullius Cicero around 70 BC. She also had an older brother named after his father, Titus Pomponius Atticus.

Caecilia Attica is several times mentioned in the letters between her father and Cicero. Cicero was very fond of this little girl, whom he would never see growing into an adult as he was murdered in 43 BC. He gave her the pet name Attica, the feminine equivalent to her father's cognomen Atticus.. In his letters he sent always greetings to her, and often asked if she had one of her bouts of high fever that caused distress to him. In one letter to Atticus in the beginning of the 40es BC Cicero tells him not to reprimand Attica, who was sulking and angry at Cicero. He said, that she was quite right in insisting that Cicero had not on his last visit said properly goodbye to her.

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