2nd wife of Augustus,
mother of Tiberius (by first husband),
paternal grandmother of Claudius
great-grandmother of Caligula &
great-great-grandmother of Nero.
Ambitious patrician beauty who influenced Augustus & Tiberius.
Rumored to have instigated deaths of other male heirs of Augustus.
Deified as "Julia Augusta" by Claudius (41 CE).
Easily the most powerful woman in ancient Roman history.
References: Josephus,
Antiquities
17.146, 190; 18.31-33.
_____, War
1.566, 641; 5, 167.
Suetonius, Life
of Augustus 62-63, 99.
_____, Life
of Tiberius 4, 6, 14, 22, 26, 50.
_____, Life
of Claudius 1, 3-4, 11.
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