Scribonia (68 BC-16) was the second wife of Roman Emperor Augustus and the mother of his only natural child, Julia Caesaris. She was the grandmother of Gaius Caesar, Julia the Younger, Lucius Caesar, Agrippina the Elder and Agrippa Postumus, great-grandmother to Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, and great-great-grandmother of Emperor Nero.
Scribonia was the daughter of a Lucius Scribonius Libo (maybe the praetor of 80 BC). Her b...
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Scribonia (68 BC-16) was the second wife of Roman Emperor Augustus and the mother of his only natural child, Julia Caesaris. She was the grandmother of Gaius Caesar, Julia the Younger, Lucius Caesar, Agrippina the Elder and Agrippa Postumus, great-grandmother to Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, and great-great-grandmother of Emperor Nero.
Scribonia was the daughter of a Lucius Scribonius Libo (maybe the praetor of 80 BC). Her brother of the same name was consul and died in 34 BC. The name of her mother was Sentia. According to Suetonius, Scribonia's first two marriages were to former consuls. Her first husband is unknown, although it had been suggested that he was Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (consul 56 BC), as there is an inscription that refers to freedmen (post 39 BC) of Scribonia and her son Cornelius Marcellinus , indicating that she had a son from her previous marriage and that he was living with her after she divorced her third husband. He may have...
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