ABSTRACT
The year 23 BCE left Julia already a widow in her sixteenth year, but we do not know enough about her relationship with her deceased nineteen-yearold cousin and husband Marcellus to help us understand whether this caused her personal grief or anything more than social inconvenience. She had grown up in the Princeps’ household – may indeed never have been allowed to leave it, if she and Marcellus were housed in the Palatine complex – and must have realized that widowhood for the daughter of Augustus meant remarriage, and remarriage on her father’s terms.
