Background
Her parents divorced when Julia was an infant, due to her mother"s family being connected to the opponents of Roman Emperor Nero.
Her parents divorced when Julia was an infant, due to her mother"s family being connected to the opponents of Roman Emperor Nero.
In 65, after the failure of the Pisonian conspiracy, the family of Marcia Furnilla was disfavored by Nero. Julia was raised by her father. Julia had been born in Rome and Titus conquered Jerusalem on Julia"s sixth birthday.
By then Domitian had seduced her.
"lived with as husband with wife, making little effort at concealment. Then upon the demands of the people he became reconciled with Domitia, but continued his relations with Julia nonetheless."
Juvenal condemns this liaison as follows:
Becoming pregnant, Julia died of what was rumored (though unlikely) to be a forced abortion.
Julia was deified and her ashes were later mixed and smoked with Domitian"s by an old nurse secretly in the Temple of the Flavians. Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars – Titus & Domitian 17, 22.
Dio Cassius, lxvii. 3.
Pliny, Ep. iv. 11. 6. Philostratus, Vit. Apoll. Tyan. vii. 3. Media related to Julia Titi at Wikimedia Commons.