Plutarch also mentions that Marius had two step-sons named Quintus Granius and Gnaeus Granius,[2] it is possible that these men were children of Julia by an earlier marriage or step-children of Marius from a marriage to another woman before Julia.

[3] According to Plutarch, it was by marrying her, a patrician woman, that the upstart Marius got the attention of the snobbish Roman Senate and launched his political career.

Julia died in 69 BC and received a devoted funeral eulogy from her nephew Julius Caesar.

[5] When quaestor, he pronounced the customary orations from the rostra in praise of his aunt Julia and his wife Cornelia, who had both died.

And in the eulogy of his aunt he spoke in the following terms of her paternal and maternal ancestry and that of his own father: "The family of my aunt Julia is descended by her mother from the kings, and on her father's side is akin to the immortal Gods; for the Marcii Reges (her mother's family name) go back to Ancus Marcius, and the Julii, the family of which ours is a branch, to Venus.