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Atia (also Atia Balba) [ii] (c. 85 – 43 BC) was the niece of Julius Caesar (through his sister Julia Minor), and mother of Gaius Octavius, who became the Emperor Augustus. Through her daughter Octavia, she was also the great-grandmother of Germanicus and his brother, Emperor Claudius.
[citation needed] Full sister to Augustus, Octavia was the only daughter born of Gaius Octavius' second marriage to Atia, niece of Julius Caesar. [1] Octavia was born in Nola , present-day Italy ; her father, a Roman governor and senator, died in 59 BC from natural causes.
Occasionally the epithet divi filius or divi Iuli(i) filius ("son of the divine Julius") was included, alluding to Julius Caesar's deification in 42 BC. [12] Imperator Caesar Augustus On 16 January 27 BC, partly on his own insistence, the Roman Senate granted him the honorific Augustus (Latin: [au̯ˈɡʊstʊs]) .
About 5 BC or 6 BC, Augustus arranged for her to marry Lucius Aemilius Paullus. [2] Paullus had a family relation to her as her half first-cousin, as both had Scribonia as grandmother: Julia's mother was a daughter of Scribonia by Augustus; Paullus' mother, Cornelia, was a daughter of Scribonia resulting from her earlier marriage to Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus.
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Caligula), 12–41, had one child a. Julia Drusilla, 39–41, died young IV. Julia Agrippina (Agrippina the Younger), 15–59, had one child a. Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus), 37–68, had one child i. Claudia Augusta, January–April 63, died young
The same year as Caesar’s ultimate victory against Pompey, Octavius turned 15 and donned the toga virillis on 18 October. [6] Shortly after, Octavius began his first official business upon being elected a pontiff in the College of Pontiffs. [6] It was Caesar who had nominated Octavius for this position, the first of many to come from Caesar.
His father was one of Augustus' leading generals, and his mother, Julia the Elder, was the daughter of Augustus and his second wife, Scribonia. [8] Postumus was the third son and last child of Agrippa and Julia; his older siblings were Gaius Caesar, Julia the Younger, Lucius Caesar and Agrippina the Elder. Both of his brothers, Gaius and Lucius ...
Octavia C. f. C. n., sister of Augustus, married first Gaius Claudius Marcellus, consul in 50 BC, and second Mark Antony. Gaius Octavius C. f. C. n., the first Roman emperor, was the great-nephew of Julius Caesar, in whose will he was adopted. In 27 BC the senate proclaimed him Augustus.