Iulla Antonia | |
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| Relatives | Octavia Minor, maternal grandmother |
| Family | Julio-Claudian dynasty |
Iulla Antonia (sometimes called Julia 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.[1]
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 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 G. V. Sumner.[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
- Plautia (mother of Aelius Caesar)
- List of Roman women
References
- ^ CIL 6.11959. She must have survived infancy if a freedman set up an inscription about her.
- ^ Syme, Ronald (1989). The Augustan Aristocracy (illustrated and revised ed.). Clarendon Press. p. 125. ISBN 9780198147312.
- ^ Craven, Maxwell (2019). The Imperial Families of Ancient Rome. Fonthill Media.
- ^ Syme, Ronald (1989). The Augustan Aristocracy (illustrated and revised ed.). Clarendon Press. p. 144. ISBN 9780198147312.
- ^ Syme, Ronald (1989). The Augustan Aristocracy (illustrated and revised ed.). Clarendon Press. p. 163. ISBN 9780198147312.
- ^ 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. University of California, Berkeley. p. 381.
- ^ 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. University of California, Berkeley. pp. 374, 381–382.
- ^ Dray, Stephanie (2013). Daughters of the Nile. Penguin. p. 245. ISBN 9781101627235.