Julia the Younger
Julia the Younger | |
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Born | 19 BC |
Died | AD 28 (aged 47) Tremirus |
Spouse | Lucius Aemilius Paullus |
Issue | Aemilia Lepida Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (possibly) |
Dynasty | Julio-Claudian dynasty |
Father | Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa |
Mother | Julia the Elder |
Vipsania Julia Agrippina (19 BC – c. AD 28) nicknamed Julia Minor (Classical Latin: IVLIA•MINOR)[1] and called Julia the Younger by modern historians, was a Roman noblewoman of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. She was emperor Augustus' first granddaughter, being the first daughter and second child of Julia the Elder and her husband Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. Along with her siblings, Julia was raised and educated by her maternal grandfather Augustus and her maternal step-grandmother Livia Drusilla. Just like her siblings, she played an important role in the dynastic plans of Augustus, but much like her mother, she was disgraced due to infidelity later on in her life.
Life
About 5 BC or 6 BC, Augustus arranged for her to marry
Paullus and Julia had a daughter,
According to Suetonius, she built a large, pretentious country house. Augustus disliked large, overdone houses and had it demolished.[4]
In 8 AD, according to ancient historians, Julia was exiled for having an affair with Decimus Junius Silanus, a Roman Senator. She was sent to Tremirus, a small Italian island, where she gave birth to a child. Augustus rejected the infant and ordered it to be exposed,[5] or left on a mountainside to die. Silanus went into voluntary exile, but returned under Tiberius' reign.[6] Sometime between 1 AD and 14 AD, her husband Paullus was executed as a conspirator in a revolt.[7] Modern historians theorize that Julia's exile was not actually for adultery but for involvement in Paullus' revolt.[8] Livia plotted against her stepdaughter's family and ruined them, according to some. This led to open compassion for the fallen family. In 28 AD, Julia died on the same island where she had been sent in exile twenty years earlier.[9] Due to the adultery that Julia committed, Augustus stated in his will that she would never be buried in Rome.[10]
Unusual naming
Julia the Younger was not a member of the
Ancestry
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See also
Notes
- ^ E. Groag, A. Stein, L. Petersen – e.a. (edd.), Prosopographia Imperii Romani saeculi I, II et III (PIR), Berlin, 1933 – I 635
- ^ Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, "II. Augustus", LXIV
- ISBN 9780190455897.
- ^ Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, "II. Augustus", LXXII
- ^ Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, "II. Augustus", LXV
- ^ Tacitus, Ann. III, 24
- ^ Suetonius, The Lives of Caesars, Life of Augustus 19
- ^ Norwood, Frances, "The Riddle of Ovid's Relegatio" Classical Philology (1963) p. 154
- ^ Tacitus, Ann. IV, 71
- ^ Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, "II. Augustus", CI
- Octavianusafter his posthumous adoption had taken place).
- ^ Tacitus, Ann. I, 3
- ^ PIR2 214
External links
- The Archeological museum of the University of Innsbruck displays a sculpted head that is presumably Vipsania Julia's: Inv. Nr. I/506 – Image at the university's website.