Iulla Antonia

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Iulla Antonia
Parents
RelativesOctavia Minor, maternal grandmother
FamilyJulio-Claudian dynasty

Iulla Antonia is thought to be a daughter of Roman consul of 10 BCE Iullus Antonius (son of Mark Antony) and Claudia Marcella Major (niece of emperor Augustus). The only direct evidence of her existence that has been found is a funerary urn.[a]

History[]

Her mother likely had two daughters, Vipsania Marcella and Vipsania Marcellina from her earlier marriage to Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.[2] She is known to have had one full sibling, a brother named Lucius Antonius, and possibly another brother named Iullus who died young.[3]

Historian Ronald Syme notes that she has been used as an example to explain later descendants from Mark Antony among the Roman patricians of Imperial times,[4] mainly that of a Junius Blaesus,[5] this view was supported by .[6]

Cultural depictions[]

Iulla may be depicted on the Ara Pacis with her parents.[7] She and her brother Lucius appear in the novel Daughter of the Nile by Stephanie Dray.[8]

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ She must have survived infancy if a freedman set up an inscription about her.[1]

References[]

Citations[]

  1. ^ CIL 6.11959.
  2. ^ Syme 1989, p. 125.
  3. ^ Craven 2019.
  4. ^ Syme 1989, p. 144.
  5. ^ Syme 1989, p. 163.
  6. ^ Stern 2006, p. 381.
  7. ^ Stern 2006, pp. 374, 381–382.
  8. ^ Dray 2013, p. 245.

Bibliography[]

  • Craven, Maxwell (2019). The Imperial Families of Ancient Rome. Stroud, England: Fonthill Media. ISBN 9781781557389.
  • Dray, Stephanie (2013). Daughters of the Nile. Penguin. ISBN 9781101627235.
  • Stern, Gaius (2006). Women, Children, and Senators on the Ara Pacis Augustae: A Study of Augustus' Vision of a New World Order in 13 BC (Thesis). University of California, Berkeley. OCLC 892834012.
  • Syme, Ronald (1989). The Augustan Aristocracy (illustrated and revised ed.). Oxford, England: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198147312.
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