ABSTRACT
This examination of Julius Caesar advances a reading of these characters as servicemembers with military families who endured civil wars. It emphasizes Portia and Calupurnia’s knowledge as military spouses; Portia’s insistence on her own stoic power and military lineage, a quality she shares with other military spouses; and Calpurnia’s struggles of being infertile, given a military spouse’s role in the military’s self-perpetuating culture, even in the twenty-first century. Reading these women as partners and as members of the military culture will better illuminate their contributions to their narrative and the plot.
