Antonia (daughter of Mark Antony)
Antonia (* between 54 and 49 BC) was a daughter of the later Roman triumvir Marcus Antonius and his wife Antonia . She is not to be confused with the daughters of the same name Antonia the Elder and Antonia the Younger of Antonius von Octavia .
When at the beginning of May 44 BC BC, about one and a half months after the murder of Gaius Julius Caesar , whose great-nephew Octavian, who was supposed to be the main heir, arrived in Rome and accepted the inheritance, Antonius immediately saw him as a competitor. Although Antonius, as the leading Caesarian and consul, had a far greater position of power than Octavian, he sought to strengthen his position through a connection with the second important Caesarian, the previous magister equitum and later triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus . Therefore, around the end of May 44 BC, he appointed Lepidus to the pontifex maximus and betrothed his little daughter Antonia to a son of Lepidus.
Theodor Mommsen identified Antonia, the daughter of Antonius, with the wife of the same name of the wealthy Asian Pythodoros von Tralleis , who was the mother of Pythodoris , the wife of Polemon I von Pontos. According to this, Antonia's engagement to Lepidus' son would have been dissolved beforehand. Mommsen's theory, however, has not met with unanimous support in research. For example, the Zurich ancient historian Christian Marek doubts it .
literature
- Paul Groebe: Antonius 112. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2640.
Remarks
- ↑ Cassius Dio 44, 53, 6f .; on this Jochen Bleicken , Augustus , Berlin 1998, p. 65f.
- ^ Christian Marek, History of Asia Minor in Antike , Munich 2010, p. 384.
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| SURNAME | Antonia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Daughter of Mark Antony |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 54 BC BC and 49 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 44 BC Chr. |