Aemilia Lepida
Aemilia Lepida (* around 3 BC) was a great-granddaughter of the emperor Augustus .
As the eldest daughter of Iulia Minor and Lucius Aemilius Paullus, she was in close contact with the Julio-Claudian imperial family . As a child she was betrothed to her cousin Claudius , who later became emperor. However, this engagement was broken when her mother fell out of favor in 8 AD because of an alleged affair with Decimus Silanus, brother of Marcus Junius Silanus .
Instead, she married Marcus Iunius Silanus Torquatus a little later . The children from this marriage were
- Decimus Iunius Silanus Torquatus (Consul 53) (* around 10; † 64)
- Lucius Junius Silanus (praetor 48) (* around 12; † 49), fiancé of Octavia
- Marcus Junius Silanus (Consul 46) (* 14; † 54)
- Iunia Calvina (* around 25; † after 79) and
- Iunia Lepida and possibly
- Iunia Silana (* approx. 15-20; † 59)
Nothing is known about the time of her death. Their children and grandchildren all fell victim to the stalkings of Agrippina the Younger and Nero , who saw a danger in the last biological descendants of Augustus.
literature
- Paul von Rohden : Aemilius 169 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 591 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tacitus , Annalen 3, 24, 3f. ( English translation )
- ↑ According to the Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR²) (1966) I 861 u. Stemma p. 351.
- ↑ According to R. Hanslik, Iunius 27. I. Silana , in: Der Kleine Pauly , Vol. 2 (1967), Col. 1561.
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| SURNAME | Aemilia Lepida |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lepida, Aemilia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Great-granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus |
| DATE OF BIRTH | at 3 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century |