Talk:Mucia Tertia

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Conflating Aemilia Scaura with Mucia Tertia?[edit]

In the first sentence of the second paragraph, it indicates that Sulla instructed Pompey to marry Mucia in order to cement their political alliance with each other, but it looks like someone must have conflated Mucia Tertia (Pompey's third wife) with Aemilia Scaura (Pompey's second wife); see: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pompey*.html#9

It should probably be revised to just say: "Pompey married Mucia around 79 BC."

Dfault (talk) 23:42, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Marriage with Gaius Marius the Younger?[edit]

This statement does not appear in William Smith's text, and I have not found any reliable source to confirm it. Is it possible that this is a mistake? --BlaGalaxi (talk) 06:56, 13 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

So, the evidence for the Younger Marius's marriage to a Mucia comes from Plutarch's Life of Marius (35:6-7), where it reads:

He (Marius) also sent his son to get provisions from the estate of his father-in‑law, Mucius, which was not far off, while he himself went down to the coast at Ostia, where a friend of his, Numerius, had provided a vessel for him. Then, without waiting for his son, but taking his step-son Granius with him, he set sail. The younger Marius reached the estate of Mucius, but as he was getting supplies and packing them up, day overtook him and he did not altogether escape the vigilance of his enemies; for some horsemen came riding towards the place, moved by suspicion. When the overseer of the farm saw them coming, he hid Marius in a wagon loaded with beans, yoked up his oxen, and met the horsemen as he was driving the wagon to the city. In this way young Marius was conveyed to the house of his wife, where he got what he wanted, and then by night came to the sea, boarded a ship that was bound for Africa, and crossed over.

If the Mucius mentioned here is Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex, then the statement is correct. For a modern secondary source that says Marius was arranging a marriage to Mucia Tertia, see Telford, L. Sulla: A Dictator Reconsidered (2014), p. 99 (although Telford says that the marriage never took place) https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Sulla/i2ptBQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mucia+tertia+marius&pg=PT109&printsec=frontcover Oatley2112 (talk) 05:57, 14 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]