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Merry Ides of March tumblrinas! It's a great day to talk about Julius Caesar and knives.
Put that down, Brutus. We're examining a myth about Caesar: his purported birth by C-section.
There's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that Julius Caesar was born by C-section, and it's also unclear as to whether the obstetric surgery was even named after him. Nevertheless, a lot of people seem to believe it. Why?
We hate to blame one bloke for a misunderstanding, but the Caesar/C-section myth kind of can be traced back to one bloke, and it's someone you may be familiar with: Pliny the Elder. Pliny's encyclopaedia, an important and not 100% bullshit document, made a lot of claims which were absolutely wild. Like all the stuff he said about periods.
But we can't blame Pliny entirely for the myth. Pliny himself was very clear that it wasn't Julius Caesar born by C-section, but an ancestor of his who was "removed by an incision in his mother's womb". According to Pliny, this was the source of the cognomen "Caesar" - derived from "to cut".
Which, by the way, might not be the etymology of "Caesar", so he was probably entirely wrong about that. It could have come from a word for elephant, or describing a full head of hair, or grey eyes. Julius Caesar favoured the elephant etymology.
Whether by mistranslation or exaggeration, by the 10th century, Byzantine encyclopaedia the Suda was asserting that Caesar himself was born by C-section, saying that he was "not born… For when his mother died in the ninth month, they cut her open, took him out, and named him thus; for in the Roman tongue dissection is called ‘Caesar.’"
Caesar's mother, Aurelia, probably would have been rather miffed by this claim as she was present in his adult life as an advisor and running his household. And there is no documentation to suggest she was a zombie or a ghost at this time.
By the sixteenth century, medical texts were referring to C-sections as "the Caesarian operation". It's unclear as to exactly why. It may be linked to the myth of Caesar's birth, or it may be for an entirely different reason. We won't bore you with specifics of Roman law, but in short there was a specific provision that if someone died while pregnant, the foetus had to be removed before the body could be buried. Originally, this was known as Lex Regia (law of kings), then later Lex Caesarea (law of emperors).
Since early C-sections were generally performed when the mother was either close to death, or already dead, so it's entirely possible that the procedure was simply named after the Roman law, and not Caesar.
But nevertheless, the myth around Caesar's birth prevailed. Even dictionaries as recent as the 1980s confidently declared that the etymology of the operation came from the circumstances of Caesar's birth, stating it as fact.
It's a complete myth that Julius Caesar was born by C-section. If you'd like a story involving the man and a ton of knives, you'll get a much better one on this day in 44 BCE.
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