WI: Julia Caesaris had not died?

Pompey had wedded Julius Caesar's only child, Julia and on a fateful night in 54 B.C, she died during childbirth along with the child a few days later. Due to this devastating moment, the last bond between Caesar and Pompey, who were already at odds due to the formers war in Gaul was broken.

But...what if Julia had not died?

What if Julia Caesaris had lived and given Pompey a child, how might that have changed the dynamic of Caesar and Pompey's relations? Would that have stopped the tidal wave of violence that came during the bloody civil war that would come or was the civil war inevitable?

How might history have changed had Pompey not raised arms against Caesar?
 
The civil war was only inevitable when Curio made it inevitable. I have always believed that neither Pompey or Caesar (or even Cato and his ilk for that matter) wanted civil war or intended to force it to that point. So in a timeline where Pompey and Caesar have even more incentive such as this to avoid civil war, it should be averted.

Now the republic is going to continue on, at least for another generation (Pompey and Caesar being the only ones who could have really brought it down at this time). It would be interesting to see the next generation of Roman senators: Men like Dolabella, Brutus, Quintus Labienus, Marcus Cicero Minor, the younger Crassus (grandson of the triumvir)...all men with ability and an ambition.
 
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