Aemilia Scaura (ca 100
BC-82 BC) was the only
daughter of the patrician
roman Marcus
Aemilius Scaurus and his second wife Caecilia Metella Dalmatica. By the
time of her birth, Scaurus was around sixty and, as princeps
senatus, the speaker of the senate,
was one of the most important politicians of Rome.
After her father's death, Dalmatica married Lucius
Cornelius Sulla, who took care of her education and fortune. Sulla also
used his
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stepdaughter for political alliances. In 82 BC, Aemilia was married and pregnant
from a man who dared to criticize the dictator's conduct. Sulla was most displeased
and forced the divorce. Immediately afterwards, Aemilia was married to Pompey,
while still pregnant from her first husband. This marriage boosted Pompey's
political career because Aemilia was a aristocratic patrician, while he was
from a recent senatorial family. Aemilia eventually died from childbirth shortly
afterwards.
The Via Aemilia Scaura is a Roman road built by Marcus Aemilius Scaurus during his term as censor in 109 BC. This Via is mainly a coastal road that connects Placencia to Pisa, passing through Genoa.
