Livia Medullina
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Furia[a] Livia Medullina Camilla (ca. 6 BC-ca 10 AD) was the second fiancee of the future Emperor Claudius.[1]
Biography
Medullina was the daughter of
Marcus Furius Camillus[2] consul in AD 8, who was a close friend of the emperor Tiberius[3] and Livia Scriboniana, the daughter of Marcus Livius Drusus Libo (born Lucius Scribonius Libo), the adopted brother of the empress Livia. As a child, Medullina may have been called by the names Furia and Camilla (possibly along with her other names), but as an adult she seems to have been referred to mainly as "Livia Medullina".[4] Her nomen gentilicium Furia is not actually attested but can be assumed to have been used at some point due to Roman naming conventions for women at the time.[5]
Medullina's brother was
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
.
Medullina was betrothed to Claudius some time after his first engagement, to his relative
pedagogue
, dedicated to "Medullina Camilli f. Ti. Claudi Neronis Germanici sponsa" (Medullina, daughter of Camillus, betrothed of Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus).
In The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius states that Medullina unexpectedly fell ill, and died on the day of her wedding to Claudius,[10] possibly in AD 9 or 10.[11]
Medullina's brother Scribonianus was the instigator of the first major rebellion against Claudius, while he was governor of Dalmatia in AD 42.
Cultural depictions
In
Livia Drusilla's wishes, Claudius is permitted to marry Medullina by Germanicus and Augustus
. However, Claudius is robbed of happiness on the day of the engagement as Medullina Camilla is assassinated, purportedly for an unrelated vendetta against Medullina's uncle.
Notes
- ^ She is not actually attested to have used her nomen gentilicium.
References
- ^ Stuart, "The Inscription of Claudius on the Arch of Ticinum".
- ^ Syme, The Roman Revolution, p. 553.
- ^ Pettinger, The Republic in Danger, p. 230
- ^ Kajava, "Livia Medullina and CIL X 6561", p. 64.
- ^ Settipani. 2000. page 87
- ^ Wiseman, "Calpurnius Siculus and the Claudian Civil War".
- ^ Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy, p. 460.
- ^ Levick, Tiberius the Politician, p. 38.
- ^ Kershaw, A Brief History of the Roman Empire, p. 85.
- ^ Mudd, I, Livia, p. 338.
- ^ Vagi, "Tiberius Claudius Drusus".
Bibliography
- Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars, or The Twelve Caesars).
- Meriwether Stuart, "The Date of the Inscription of Claudius on the Arch of Ticinum", in American Journal of Archaeology, vol. XL, pp. 314–322 (1936).
- Ronald Syme, The Roman Revolution, Oxford University Press (1939).
- Timothy P. Wiseman, "Calpurnius Siculus and the Claudian Civil War", in The Journal of Roman Studies, vol. 72, pp. 57–67 (1982).
- Mika Kajava, "Livia Medullina and CIL X 6561", in Arctos, 1986, Acta Philologica Fennica, pp. 59–71 (1987).
- Barbara Levick, Claudius, Yale University Press (1990); Tiberius the Politician, Routledge (2003).
- Mary Mudd, I, Livia: The Counterfeit Criminal. The Story of a Much Maligned Woman, Trafford Publishing (2005).
- David L. Vagi, "Tiberius Claudius Drusus († AD 20), Son of Claudius and Urgulanilla", in American Journal of Numismatics, vol. 22, pp. 81–92 (2010).
- Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy, Cambridge University Press (2012).
- Andrew Pettinger, The Republic in Danger: Drusus Libo and the Succession of Tiberius, Oxford University Press (2012).
- Stephen P. Kershaw, "A Brief History of the Roman Empire, Hachette UK (2013).
- Settipani, Christian (2000). Continuité gentilice et continuité familiale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale: mythe et réalité. Occasional publications of the Oxford Unit for Prosopographical Research (in Italian). Vol. 2 (illustrated ed.). Unit for Prosopographical Research, Linacre College, University of Oxford. ISBN 9781900934022.