Octavia

Title
Octavia
Publication Date
2013
Author(s)
Hopwood, Bronwyn
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3039-2936
Email: bhopwood@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:bhopwood
Editor
Editor(s): Roger S Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige B Champion, Andrew Erskine and Sabine R Huebner
Type of document
Entry In Reference Work
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Place of publication
Chichester, United Kingdom
Edition
1
DOI
10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah19205
UNE publication id
une:13153
Abstract
Octavia (ca. 69-11 BCE; RE 96), daughter of Gaius Octavius and Atia, was the great-niece of Julius Caesar and sister of Augustus. Married by 54 to C. Claudius Marcellus (RE 216; Cass. Dio 40.59.4; died 40 BCE), the pro-senatorial consul of 50 BCE, Octavia produced three children: Claudia Marcella Maior and Minor and M. Claudius Marcellus. In 42, as the sister of a triumvir, Octavia received petitions from the 'ordo matronarum' for assistance with a triumviral tax (App. B Civ. 4.32) and a case of proscription (Cass. Dio 47.7.4-5). In 39 she became the wife of Antony as a consequence of the latter's pact with her brother agreed at Brundisium the previous year (Plut. Ant. 31; App. B Civ. 5.64; Cass. Dio 48.31.3-4). Octavia resided in Athens until 37 (App. B Civ. 5.76), and bore Antony daughters: Antonia Maior and Minor.
Link
Citation
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, v.IX. Ne-Pl, p. 4860-4861
ISBN
9781444338386
9781405179355
Start page
4860
End page
4861

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