Claudia Antonia

Claudia Antonia
Spouse	Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix
Issue
son
House	Julio-Claudian Dynasty
Father	Claudius
Mother	Aelia Paetina
Born	AD 30
Died	AD 66

Roman imperial dynasties
Julio-Claudian dynasty
Chronology
Augustus		27 BC – 14 AD
Tiberius		14 AD – 37 AD
Caligula		37 AD – 41 AD
Claudius		41 AD – 54 AD
Nero		54 AD – 68 AD
Family
Gens Julia Gens Claudia Julio-Claudian family tree Category:Julio-Claudian Dynasty
Succession
Preceded by Roman Republic		Followed by Year of the Four Emperors

Claudia Antonia (Classical Latin: ANTONIA•CLAUDII•CAESARIS•FILIA^[1]) (ca. AD 30–AD 66) was the daughter of the Roman Emperor Claudius and his second wife Aelia Paetina. Antonia was also a great-grandniece of the Emperor Augustus, great-niece of the Emperor Tiberius, first cousin of the Emperor Caligula, half-sister to Claudia Octavia and Britannicus, and stepsister and sister-in-law of the Emperor Nero.

Until 37, she was raised by her paternal grandmother Antonia Minor (who died that year). From then until 43, she was raised by her father.

In 43, she first married Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, (a descendant from Pompeia, the daughter of triumvir Pompey), a man of the highest birth. His parents were consul Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi and Scribonia. According to Suetonius he died several years later, because he was stabbed to death while in bed with a favorite boyfriend. Cassius Dio states that the Empress Valeria Messalina (out of her fear, of Pompeius being a rival to Britannicus) ordered his execution, so that Antonia could marry Messalina's half-brother Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix.

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 the Emperor Nero. In 65, Tacitus records the rumour that Gaius Calpurnius Piso intended to marry Antonia, as an element of his conspiracy against Nero.

After the death of the Empress Poppaea Sabina, Nero's second wife, 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 and Antonia Minor.

Ancestry

Notes

1. ^ E. Groag, A. Stein, L. Petersen - e.a. (edd.), Prosopographia Imperii Romani saeculi I, II et III (PIR), Berlin, 1933 - A 886

References

Biography

• E. Groag, A. Stein, L. Petersen - e.a. (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.