Antonia

Also known as: the younger Antonia · Family: Julio-Claudian · Role: mother of Germanicus · First appears: Caligula 1

Antonia, the younger Antonia, was married to Drusus the Elder and had three surviving children: Germanicus, Livilla, and Claudius Caesar. Germanicus was the father of Caligula, and Caenis was Antonia’s freedwoman and amanuensis.

After living with Livia Augusta, Caligula was transferred to the family of his grandmother, Antonia. The senate then granted Antonia all the honours previously conferred on the empress Livia Augusta. Caligula later subjected her to indignities and ill usage, which caused her death; some believed he also gave her poison.

Relationship record

Life events

• Caligula was transferred to Antonia’s family after living with Livia Augusta.(Caligula 10)
  • With: Caligula
  • “He was then transferred to the family of his grandmother, Antonia”
• The senate granted Antonia all honours previously conferred on empress Livia.(Caligula 15)
  • With: Caligula
  • “By a single decree of the senate, he heaped upon his grandmother, Antonia, all the honours which had been ever conferred on the empress Livia.”
• Antonia died after Caligula subjected her to indignities and ill usage; some believed he poisoned her.(Caligula 23)
  • With: Caligula
  • “Indignities of this kind, and ill usage, were the cause of her death; but some think he also gave her poison.”
• Drusus and Antonia left three children: Germanicus, Livilla, and Claudius Caesar.(Claudius 1)
  • With: Drusus the Elder Germanicus Livilla Claudius Caesar
  • “He had by the younger Antonia several children, but left behind him only three, namely, Germanicus, Livilla, and Claudius”
• Antonia married Cneius Pompey the Great.(Claudius 27)
  • With: Cneius Pompeius Magnus (son-in-law of Claudius)
  • “He married Antonia to Cneius Pompey the Great”
• Antonia subsequently married Faustus Sylla.(Claudius 27)
  • With: Faustus Sylla
  • “and afterwards to Faustus Sylla, both youths of very noble parentage;”
• Nero executed Antonia for allegedly plotting against him after she refused his marriage proposal.(Nero 35)
  • With: Nero
  • “Under pretence of her being engaged in a plot against him, he put to death Antonia, Claudius’s daughter, who refused to marry him after the death of Poppaea.”

Caligula 1

• child: Germanicus “Germanicus, the father of Caius Caesar, and son of Drusus and the younger Antonia,”

Caligula 10

• younger kin: Caligula (Antonia is identified as Caligula's grandmother.) “He was then transferred to the family of his grandmother, Antonia”

Caligula 15

• younger kin: Caligula “By a single decree of the senate, he heaped upon his grandmother, Antonia, all the honours which had been ever conferred on the empress Livia.”