Claudia

Family: Roman · Role: Augustus's wife · First appears: Augustus 62

Claudia was a Roman woman who became Augustus’s wife after his reconciliation with Mark Antony following their first rupture. Augustus married her as Mark Antony’s step-daughter and the daughter of Fulvia by Publius Claudius, though she was scarcely marriageable; when a difference arose with her mother-in-law Fulvia, he divorced her “untouched, and a pure virgin.”

Later, Claudius listed Claudia among the children he had by Urgulanilla. He revealed that she was in truth the daughter of Boter, his freedman, and, although she had been born five months before his divorce, ordered her “thrown naked at her mother’s door.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Augustus married Claudia, Antony’s step-daughter.(Augustus 62)
  • With: Augustus
  • “he married Antony’s step-daughter Claudia, the daughter of Fulvia by Publius Claudius, although at that time she was scarcely marriageable;”
• Augustus divorced Claudia while she was still untouched and a virgin.(Augustus 62)
  • With: Augustus
  • “and upon a difference arising with his mother-in-law Fulvia, he divorced her untouched, and a pure virgin.”
• Claudius revealed Claudia's true parentage and ordered her exposed at her mother's door.(Claudius 27)
  • With: Claudius Boter Urgulanilla
  • “Claudia, who was, in truth, the daughter of Boter his freedman, though she was born five months before his divorce, he ordered to be thrown naked at her mother’s door.”

Augustus 62

• married with Augustus “he married Antony’s step-daughter Claudia, the daughter of Fulvia by Publius Claudius, although at that time she was scarcely marriageable; and upon a difference arising with his mother-in-law Fulvia, he divorced her untouched, and a pure virgin.”
• parent: Mark Antony “he married Antony’s step-daughter Claudia, the daughter of Fulvia by Publius Claudius, although at that time she was scarcely marriageable”
• parent: Fulvia “Claudia, the daughter of Fulvia by Publius Claudius”
• parent: Publius Claudius “Claudia, the daughter of Fulvia by Publius Claudius”

Claudius 27

• parent: Claudius (The chapter later states that Claudia was in truth Boter's daughter.) “He had children by three of his wives: by Urgulanilla, Drusus and Claudia; by Paetina, Antonia; and by Messalina, Octavia, and also a son, whom at first he called Germanicus, but afterwards Britannicus.”
• parent: Urgulanilla “He had children by three of his wives: by Urgulanilla, Drusus and Claudia; by Paetina, Antonia; and by Messalina, Octavia, and also a son, whom at first he called Germanicus, but afterwards Britannicus.”
• parent: Boter “Claudia, who was, in truth, the daughter of Boter his freedman, though she was born five months before his divorce, he ordered to be thrown naked at her mother’s door.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.