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OCTAVIA MINOR: THE SISTER OF AN EMPIRE

OCTAVIA MINOR: THE SISTER OF AN EMPIRE. Shannon DuBois Age of Augustus April 26, 2012. χρῆμα θαυμαστόν ,  ὡς λέγεται ,  γυναικὸς γενομένην ( Plut . Ant . 31.1.). Photo by Bill Storage and Laura Maish http://www.rome101.com/portraiture/Octavia/pix/0608_9238WS_L.jpg.

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OCTAVIA MINOR: THE SISTER OF AN EMPIRE

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  1. OCTAVIA MINOR: THE SISTER OF AN EMPIRE Shannon DuBois Age of Augustus April 26, 2012

  2. χρῆμαθαυμαστόν, ὡςλέγεται, γυναικὸςγενομένην (Plut. Ant. 31.1.) Photo by Bill Storage and Laura Maish http://www.rome101.com/portraiture/Octavia/pix/0608_9238WS_L.jpg Photo by Giovanni Dall’Orto, Wikipedia A cast of a portrait of Octavia Minor in the Ara Pacis museum. The original is in the Palazzo Massimo alle Termemuseum in Rome.

  3. Political Debut Bust of Mark Antony, Vatican Museums Wikipedia • 50 BCE: Marries Gaius Claudius Marcellus • Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Claudia Maior, and Claudia Minor • 40 BCE: Marries Mark Antony, months after Marcellus dies • Antonia Maior and Antonia Minor • Cares for Antony’s children by Fulvia • 37 BCE: Mediates between Antony and Octavian at Tarentum • 36 BCE: Sent back to Rome, away from Antony • 35 BCE: Honored by Octavian with statues, sacrosanctitas, and freedom from tutelage • 32 BCE: Antony officially divorces her

  4. Augustan SuccessionImages from Wikipedia Cleopatra Selene Juba Marcellus Agrippa Drusus Antonia Minor

  5. PorticusOctaviae Theater of Marcellus Wikipedia PorticusOctaviae Photo by William P. Thayer, Lacus Curtius

  6. Death of Octavia Mausoleum Augusti Wikipedia • Public funeral • Orations by Augustus and Drusus • Buried in the Mausoleum of Augustus

  7. Tomb markers of Marcellus and Octavia (Vatican Museums) Marcellus s(on of) G(aius) nephewof Augustus Caesar Octavia d(aughter of) G(aius) sister of Augu[stusCaesar]

  8. Works Cited Barrett, Anthony A. Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2002. Levick, Barbara. Augustus: Image and Substance. Great Britain: Pearson Education Ltd. 2010. Singer, Mary White. “Octavia’s Mediation at Tarentum.” The Classical Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3 (1947): 173-178. Treggiari, Susan. “Women in the Time of Augustus.” The Cambridge Companion to the Age ofAugustus. Ed. Karl Galinsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University. 2005.

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