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Encyclopedia Britannica



OCTAVIA

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 993 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
OCTAVIA , the name of two princesses of the Augustan
house
 .
(1) Octavia, daughter of Gaius Octavius and
sister
  of the emperor
Augustus
 , was the wife of Gaius Marcellus, one of the bitterest enemies of
Julius
  Caesar. In 41 B.C. her husband died, and she was married to Marcus Antonius, with the idea of bringing about a reconciliation between him and her brother. Her efforts were at first successful, but in 36 Antony left for the
Parthian
  War and renewed his intrigue with Cleopatra. Though Octavia took out troops and money to him (35), he refused to see her and formally divorced her in 32, but she always protected his children, even those by Fulvia and Cleopatra. Her beauty and virtues are praised by all ancient authorities. By her first husband she was the
mother
  of Marcus Marcellus (q.v.), who died in 23 B.C.
(2) OCTAVIA, daughter of the emperor
Claudius
 , was the wife of Nero, by whom she was put to death. A Latin tragedy on her fate is attributed, though wrongly, to
Seneca
 .


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