the conspiracy. Calpurnia is peculiarly absent in Octavian propaganda which has been regarded by historians as a bit of a mystery. The only later attestation to her is an inscription by a freedwoman named Anthis which states "She was the wife of Caesar, the great divinity" which puts its dating to at least 42 BC when Caesar was deified. Coinage There has been some speculation that Calpurnia may have stood as a model for the goddess Victory on coins struck by Caesar for his triumph after returning from Spain, but this is not generally accepted. The goddess Venus on the aureus minted by Caesar for his fifth consulship have also been interpreted to have been modeled on Calpurnia. Legacy The Roman tribe Calpurnia was named in her honor. Cultural depictions In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Calpurnia has a dream that a statue of Caesar was flowing with blood as many Romans wash their hands in the blood. She also sees in her dream that Julius Caesar would die in her arms. Calpurnia was portrayed by Gertrude Michael in Cleopatra (1934), Greer Garson in the 1953 adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Gwen Watford in Cleopatra (1963), Joan Sims in Carry On Cleo (1964), Jill Bennett in the 1970 adaptation of Julius Caesar and Valeria Golino in the 2002 miniseries Julius Caesar. Calpurnia was shown solving a murder in Mist of Prophecies (2002)—part of the Roma Sub Rosa series by Steven Saylor. She gets Gordianus the Finder to look into a threat to her husband in a later book in this series, The Triumph of Caesar (2008). She is portrayed as a woman of formidable intelligence and efficiency, utterly devoted to her husband's interests, but with an incongruous fascination with trying to foretell the future. Calpurnia was portrayed by Haydn Gwynne in HBO's series Rome. She is depicted as proud and traditional and having had a vision of Caesar's death. Shakespeare's Calpurnia was portrayed by Sylvia Lennick in Wayne and Shuster's comedy sketch "Rinse the Blood Off My Toga", parodied as a hysterical Italian-American housewife, repeatedly wailing "I told him, Julie! Don't go!" in a Bronx accent. Footnotes References Bibliography Gaius Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic War). Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Compendium of Roman History. Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch), Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars, or The Twelve