Aurelia Cotta (c. 120–54 BC)
Aurelia Cotta (c. 120–54 BC): Caesar’s mother, head of the household after her husband’s death.
To protect her son and bring him to the top through the influence of her family. She was widowed in 85 BC, when Caesar was fifteen, and directed his upbringing herself. Tacitus places her beside Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, and Atia, mother of Augustus, as a model of the Roman mother. She died in 54 BC, while Caesar was fighting in Gaul.
