WI: Caesar's daughter was a boy?

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Pompey the Great would have been married to one of Julius Caesar’s nieces instead to cement the Triumvirate for starters.
 
Pompey the Great would have been married to one of Julius Caesar’s nieces instead to cement the Triumvirate for starters.
I suspect that GJC would have taken a look at the quality of the kid, and if he was lacking, might still have picked Octavian for his heir.

OTOH, maybe the kid's good, who knows. Grooming an actual son for his replacement might lead to earlier and more plausible claims he wanted to be king. That could lead to an earlier assassination.
 
I suspect that GJC would have taken a look at the quality of the kid, and if he was lacking, might still have picked Octavian for his heir.

OTOH, maybe the kid's good, who knows. Grooming an actual son for his replacement might lead to earlier and more plausible claims he wanted to be king. That could lead to an earlier assassination attempt.

There, corrected it for you ;):D.

Anyway, one of the reasons the ties between Caesar and Pompey weakened was the death of Julia. Maybe the Triumvirate holds on for longer if whichever niece of Caesar's marries Pompey doesn't die. Caesar's succession could be interesting if his son is as competent a military leader as Caesar was (and perhaps a competent administrator like Octavian although that's wankage). Caesar was planning to avenge the death of Crassus at the hands of the Parthians at Carrhae. If this kid as anywhere near the aptitude Caesar had for warfare, maybe we could achieve that Elbe border too.:cool:
 
The continued survival of whichever niece goes to Pompey won't extend the triumvurate long, after Crassus was gone there could only be one First Man in Rome and Pompey wasn't going to bow out in favour of Caesar, all that will happen is that the divorce will be the cassus bellum.
 
What if Caesar's son and Octavian split the throne, going along this route?

You know what Octavian did to Caesar's real son, right? I doubt an adoption would be in the cards if there was an heir acceptable to Rome, but unless Octavian changes his personality massively, he isn't sharing anything of his. The man was an utter bastard.

As to the question, this could have all kinds of repercussions, not least on the personality of Caesar (not the most emotionally stable of men). A son in Rome might be a liablility during the Gallic Wars. On the other hand, if the kid inherits Caesar's personality he'll be a holy terror. I don't think Casear would try to secure him an imperial succession, but he'd certainly groom him to follow in his footsteps. A Roman Dionysios.
 
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