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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.
Augustus was born Gaius Octavius in Rome on 23 September 63 BC. [1] He was a member of the respectable, but undistinguished, Octavii family through his father, also named Gaius Octavius, and was the great-nephew of Julius Caesar through his mother Atia.
His mother, Atia, was the niece of Julius Caesar. [19] [20] A denarius from 44 BC, showing Julius Caesar on the obverse and the goddess Venus on the reverse of the coin. Caption: CAESAR IMP. M. / L. AEMILIVS BVCA. His father died in 59 BC when Octavian was four years old. [21] His mother married a former governor of Syria, Lucius Marcius Philippus.
With Augustus being the father of only one daughter (Julia by Scribonia), Livia revealed herself to be an ambitious mother and soon started to push her own sons, Tiberius and Drusus, into power. [8] Drusus was a trusted general and married Augustus' favorite niece, Antonia Minor , having three children: the popular general Germanicus , Livilla ...
[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. Her mother later remarried, to the consul Lucius Marcius Philippus ...
Augustus: 1.1–2.2, 2.4–2.10 Son of Atia and grandnephew of Caesar, Octavian is presented as a cold and highly intelligent youth who is a student of power and politics. Octavian is alternately pampered and patronized by his mother; his manhood and masculinity are seen as severely lacking by men and women alike.
Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) was a great-great-grandson of Augustus and Livia through his mother, Agrippina the Younger. The younger Agrippina was a daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, as well as Caligula's sister. Through his mother, Nero was related by blood to the Julian and Claudian branches of the Imperial ...
Scribonia (c. 70 BC [1] [2] – c. AD 16) [3] was the second [4] wife of Octavian, later the Roman Emperor Augustus, and the mother of his only biological child, Julia the Elder. Through this daughter, she was the mother-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius , great-grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger , and great ...