Octavia

Family: Roman · Role: sister of Augustus · First appears: Poplicola

Octavia was the sister of Augustus Caesar and the elder sister of Caesar, described as “not of the whole blood.” She married Caius Marcellus and bore Marcellus, her son; Athenodorus later addressed a book to her.

She then married Antony, to whom she bore two daughters, one of them Antonia, famous for her beauty and discretion. Agrippa is linked to her through the arrangement in which Octavia received her daughter and married her to the young Antony.

Relationship record

Poplicola

• with Athenodorus (interaction) “Athenodorus, son of Sandon, in a book addressed to Octavia, Caesar's sister”

Marcellus

• child: Marcellus, son of Octavia “His progeny continued in high honor even down to Marcellus, son of Octavia, sister of Augustus, whom she bore to her husband Caius Marcellus”
• married with Caius Marcellus “whom she bore to her husband Caius Marcellus”
• siblings with Augustus Caesar “Marcellus, son of Octavia, sister of Augustus,”

Antony

• siblings with Caesar “Caesar had an elder sister, not of the whole blood”
• married with Antony “So, both parties being agreed, they went to Rome to celebrate the nuptials”
• parent: Antony “Of the two daughters whom Octavia had borne to Antony”
• child: Antonia “the other, Antonia, famous for her beauty and discretion”
• married with Agrippa “Octavia, receiving her daughter, married her to the young Antony”
• child: Antony “Of the two daughters whom Octavia had borne to Antony”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.