- Junia Calvina
Junia Calvina (
Classical Latin : IVNIA•CALVINA) [Aut|E. Groag, A. Stein, L. Petersen - e.a. (edd.), "Prosopographia Imperii Romani saeculi I, II et III", Berlin, 1933, I 856] was a descendant ofRoman Emperor CaesarAugustus ,Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and the triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, through her mother Aemilia Lepida. Her father wasMarcus Junius Silanus Torquatus , a member of the ancient Junia family.She married
Lucius Vitellius , a brother of the futureRoman Emperor Vitellius , though they divorced before 49. In 48, she was falsely accused byAgrippina the Younger and her former father-in-law of open affection with her brotherLucius Junius Silanus Torquatus . Calvina wasexile d fromItaly in early 49 and her brother committedsuicide . After March 59, whenAgrippina the Younger was murdered, her sonNero brought Calvina back from exile.Tacitus describes her as "attractive but shameless".Suetonius , "Vespasian" 23, implies that Junia Calvina was still living in 79. The date of her death is unknown but she was probably the last living descendant of Augustus in the Flavian age.She is mentioned on the funeral monument of her favourite slavewoman, Tyrannis, in Tibur: [CIL XIV, 3661.]
Calviniae /M(arci) Silani fil(iae) /delicio(!) /Iuniae Sp(uri) f(iliae) Tyrannidi /uxori optumae /C(aius) Albius Livillae l(ibertus) /Thymelus Herc(ulaneus) /Augustalis
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