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Octavia the Younger
Roman noblewoman, full-sister of Augustus / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Octavia the Younger (Latin: Octavia Minor ; c. 66 BC – 11 BC) was the elder sister of the first Roman emperor, Augustus (known also as Octavian), the half-sister of Octavia the Elder, and the fourth wife of Mark Antony. She was also the great-grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, maternal grandmother of the Emperor Claudius, and paternal great-grandmother and maternal great-great-grandmother of the Emperor Nero.
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Born | c. 66 BC Nola, Italy, Roman Republic |
Died | 11 BC (aged c. 55) Rome, Italy, Roman Empire |
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Dynasty | Julio-Claudian |
Father | Gaius Octavius |
Mother | Atia |
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One of the most prominent women in Roman history, Octavia was respected and admired by contemporaries for her loyalty, nobility and humanity, as well as for maintaining traditional Roman feminine virtues.