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Claudia Antonia (Classical Latin
Classical Latin

Classical Latin is the form of the Latin used by the ancient Rome in what is usually regarded as "classical" Latin literature. Its use spanned the Golden Age of Latin literature—broadly the 1st century BC and the early 1st century AD—possibly extending to the Silver Age—broadly the 1st and 2nd centuries....
: ANTONIA•CLAUDII•CAESARIS•FILIA) (ca. 30–66) was the daughter of the later Roman Emperor
Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
 Claudius
Claudius

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
 from his second marriage to Aelia Paetina
Aelia Paetina

Aelia Paetina or Paetina was a Roman woman who lived in the 1st century. Her biological father was consul of 4, Sextus Aelius Catus while her mother is unknown....
. Until 37, she was raised by her paternal grandmother Antonia Minor
Antonia Minor

Antonia Minor , also known as Antonia the Younger or simply Antonia was a daughter of Ancient Rome politician Mark Antony and Octavia Minor, sister of roman emperor Augustus, and mother of future emperor Claudius....
 (who died that year). From then until 43, she was raised by her father.

In 43, she first married Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Claudia Antonia‘s first husband)

To see other Romans with this name, go to Pompeius.Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus was a noble Roman that lived during the 1st century. Pompeius was one among the sons of the consul of the year 27, Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi and Scribonia ....
, (a descendant from Pompeia Magna
Pompeia Magna

Pompeia Magna was the only daughter and second child born to Ancient Rome triumvir Pompey the Great or Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus from his third marriage to Mucia Tertia....
, the daughter of triumvir Pompey
Pompey

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, commonly known as Pompey /'p?mpi/, Pompey the Great or Pompey the Triumvir , was a distinguished military and political leader of the late Roman Republic....
), a man of the highest birth.






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Claudia Antonia (Classical Latin
Classical Latin

Classical Latin is the form of the Latin used by the ancient Rome in what is usually regarded as "classical" Latin literature. Its use spanned the Golden Age of Latin literature—broadly the 1st century BC and the early 1st century AD—possibly extending to the Silver Age—broadly the 1st and 2nd centuries....
: ANTONIA•CLAUDII•CAESARIS•FILIA) (ca. 30–66) was the daughter of the later Roman Emperor
Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
 Claudius
Claudius

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
 from his second marriage to Aelia Paetina
Aelia Paetina

Aelia Paetina or Paetina was a Roman woman who lived in the 1st century. Her biological father was consul of 4, Sextus Aelius Catus while her mother is unknown....
. Until 37, she was raised by her paternal grandmother Antonia Minor
Antonia Minor

Antonia Minor , also known as Antonia the Younger or simply Antonia was a daughter of Ancient Rome politician Mark Antony and Octavia Minor, sister of roman emperor Augustus, and mother of future emperor Claudius....
 (who died that year). From then until 43, she was raised by her father.

In 43, she first married Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Claudia Antonia‘s first husband)

To see other Romans with this name, go to Pompeius.Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus was a noble Roman that lived during the 1st century. Pompeius was one among the sons of the consul of the year 27, Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi and Scribonia ....
, (a descendant from Pompeia Magna
Pompeia Magna

Pompeia Magna was the only daughter and second child born to Ancient Rome triumvir Pompey the Great or Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus from his third marriage to Mucia Tertia....
, the daughter of triumvir Pompey
Pompey

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, commonly known as Pompey /'p?mpi/, Pompey the Great or Pompey the Triumvir , was a distinguished military and political leader of the late Roman Republic....
), a man of the highest birth. His parents were consul Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi
Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi

This article is about Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi, the consul that served under the Roman Emperor Tiberius of the 1st century. To see other Ancient Rome with this name, see Licinius ....
 and Scribonia
Scribonia (daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo consul 16)

Scribonia Magna , in the modern historical sources she is known as Scribonia Crassi was a Roman noblewoman that lived in the Roman Empire....
. According to Suetonius
Lives of the Twelve Caesars

De vita Caesarum commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 Roman Emperor of the Roman Empire written by Suetonius....
 he died several years later, because he was stabbed to death while in bed with a favorite boyfriend. Cassius Dio states that Empress Valeria Messalina (out of her fear, of Pompeius being a rival to Britannicus
Britannicus

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus was the son of the Roman Empire Claudius and his third wife Valeria Messalina. He became the heir-designate of the empire at his birth, less than a month into his father's reign....
) ordered his execution, so that Antonia could marry Messalina's half-brother. His name was Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix
Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix

Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix was one of the lesser known figures of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of ancient Rome. His grandmother was Antonia Major, the niece of Emperor Augustus by her husband Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ....
.

Faustus Sulla and Antonia married in 47. They had a son who was of little strength. He died before his second birthday. In 58, Faustus Sulla was exiled and murdered in 62 on the orders of Emperor Nero
Nero

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and final Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty....
. In 65, Tacitus
Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman Senate and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories —examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those that reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors....
 records the rumour that Gaius Calpurnius Piso
Gaius Calpurnius Piso

Gaius Calpurnius Piso was a Roman senator in the 1st century. He was the focal figure in the Pisonian conspiracy of 65 A.D., the most famous and wide-ranging plot against the throne of Nero....
 intended to marry Antonia, as an element of his conspiracy against Nero.

After the death of Empress Poppaea Sabina
Poppaea Sabina

Poppaea Sabina was a Roman Empress and second wife of the Roman Emperor Nero. The historians of Classical antiquity describe her as a beautiful woman who used intrigues to become empress....
, Nero asked Antonia to marry him. When Antonia refused, Nero had her charged with an attempt of rebellion and executed her. With her death, passed the last living grandchild of Nero Claudius Drusus
Nero Claudius Drusus

Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus , born Decimus Claudius Drusus also called Drusus, Drusus I, Nero Drusus, or Drusus the Elder was a Roman Empire politician and military commander....
 and Antonia Minor
Antonia Minor

Antonia Minor , also known as Antonia the Younger or simply Antonia was a daughter of Ancient Rome politician Mark Antony and Octavia Minor, sister of roman emperor Augustus, and mother of future emperor Claudius....
.

Biography

(edd.), Prosopographia Imperii Romani saeculi I, II et III, Berlin, 1933 - . (PIR2)
  • Levick, Barbara, Claudius, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1990.
  • Barrett, Anthony A., Agrippina: Sex, Power and Politics in the Early Roman Empire, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1996.
  • Griffin, Miriam, Nero. The End of a Dynasty, Batsford, London, 1984


Portraiture

  • Poulsen, Vagn, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Les portraits romains I: République et dynastie julienne, Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1962, 111 Nr. 74 Taf. 128 ff.
  • Boschung, Dietrich, Überlegungen zum Liciniergrab, JdI 101, 1986, pp. 257-287.