Subsequently proconsul of Macedonia, he defeated several Thracian tribes, and was saluted imperator by his troops. Octavius, Gaius, the father of Augustus, was praetor in 61BC. Octavius, of Velitrae, was a military leader, of the Octavii family. Octavius was a mentally disturbed individualīookOneXLIX His abuse of Caesar, derived from the relationship with Nicomedes. Nero subsequently banished Octavia to the island of Pandateria on a false charge of adultery, and finally had her executed.īookFiveXXIV Her prospective husband was Lucius Junius Silanus, but the engagement was ended through Agrippina’s machinations.īookFiveXXIX Her fiancée Lucius Silanus was executed on Claudius’s orders.īookSixXXXV BookSixXLVI Her persecution by Nero ending in her execution.īookSixLVII Nero died on the anniversary of her murder (9th June). Claudius adopted Agrippina the Younger’s son Nero as his son and heir and arranged for Octavia and Nero to marry in 53AD. 40AD - 62AD) was a daughter of Claudius by his third marriage to Valeria Messalina. She was also an elder half-sister to Octavia the Younger and the Emperor Augustus. Octavia the Elder also known as Octavia Major was the daughter of the Roman governor and senator Gaius Octavius by his first wife, Ancharia. Her husband Gaius Marcellus continued to oppose Julius Caesar particularly during the crucial year of his consulship 50BC.īookTwoIV Mentioned, as sister of Augustus.īookTwoXXIX The Porticus Octaviae built by Augustus some time after 27BC in place of the Porticus Metelli, enclosed within its colonnaded walks the temples of Jupiter Stator and Juno Regina, next to the Theatre of Marcellus.īookTwoLXI Her death, variously dated to 11BC - 9BC.īookTwoLXIII BookThreeVI Her son Marcellus who married Julia, and daughter Claudia Marcella the Elder who married Agrippa.īookTwoLXIV Germanicus was her grandson (son of her daughter by Mark Antony, Antonia the Younger).īookTwoLXXIII She made clothes for Augustus.īookFiveXLI She warned the young Claudius over the sensitivity of the work on history he was writing. However, Pompey declined the proposal marrying Cornelia Metella. Before 54BC her stepfather arranged her marriage to Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor, consul in 50BC.īookOneXXVII In 54BC, her great-uncle Julius Caesar is said to have been anxious for her to divorce her husband so that she could marry Pompey who had just lost his wife Julia (Julius Caesar’s daughter, and thus Octavia’s cousin once removed). She was also the mother-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, 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. 9BC), also known as Octavia Minor or simply Octavia, was the sister of the first Roman Emperor, Augustus (known also as Octavian), half-sister of Octavia the Elder, and fourth wife of Mark Antony.
Both volumes were revised throughout in 1997-98, and a new Introduction added.Octavia the Younger (69BC – c. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Suetonius is in two volumes. Suetonius's account of Nero's death is justly famous. We find many anecdotes, much gossip of the imperial court, and various details of character and personal appearance. His plan in Lives of the Caesars is: the emperor's family and early years public and private life death. His other works, many known by title, are now lost except for part of the Lives of Illustrious Men (of letters).įriend of Pliny the Younger, Suetonius was a studious and careful collector of facts, so that the extant lives of the emperors (including Julius Caesar the dictator) to Domitian are invaluable.
After the dismissal of both men for some breach of court etiquette, Suetonius apparently retired and probably continued his writing. Septicius Clarus, prefect of the praetorian guard, his Lives of the Caesars.
70 CE), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119–121.
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