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Antonia


1.

Antonia Maior, the daughter of M. Antonius and Octavia, wife of L. Domitius Ahenobarbus, and mother of Cn. Domitius, the

Antonia Minor. (Louvre.)

father of the emperor Nero.


2.

Minor, younger sister of the preceding, wife of Drusus, the brother of the emperor Tiberius, and mother of Germanicus, the father of the emperor Caligula, of Livia or Livilla, and of the emperor Claudius. She died A.D. 38, soon after the accession of her grandson Caligula. She was celebrated for her beauty, virtue, and chastity.


3.

The daughter of the emperor Claudius, put to death by Nero, A.D. 66, because she refused to marry him.

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