Iunia Calvina

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Iunia Calvina (* around 25; † after 79) was a Roman senator's daughter .

Her parents were Marcus Iunius Silanus Torquatus , the consul at 19, and his wife Aemilia Lepida , a great-granddaughter of Augustus .

She had four siblings:

The “beautiful”, “frivolous” and “fun-loving” Iunia Calvina had been married to Lucius Vitellius since about 46/47 , but divorced from him soon after. In 48, at Agrippina's instigation, her former father-in-law Lucius Vitellius accused her of incest with her brother Lucius Iunius Silanus in order to dissuade him from marrying the imperial daughter Octavia in favor of Nero . The brother killed himself and Iunia Calvina was expelled from Italy in 49. Sacrifices and atonements for incest were made in the grove of Diana.

Whether she, like her sister Junia Silana, was allowed to return from exile in Taranto in 59 is not clear from the sources.

As one of the few descendants of Augustus, she was still alive in 79, in the last year of Vespasian's reign . Her exact date of death is unknown.

Only the tomb inscription of her favorite slave Tyrannis, wife of Thymelus, from Tivoli / Tibur is preserved:

Calviniae /
M (arci) Silani fil (iae) /
delicio (!) /
Iuniae Sp (uri) f (iliae) Tyrannidi /
uxori optumae /
C (aius) Albius Livillae l (ibertus) /
Thymelus Herc (ulaneus) /
Augustalis

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Remarks

  1. Tacitus, Annals 12.4; Seneca, Apocolocyntosis 8.2.
  2. Tacitus, Annals 12, 8.
  3. Tacitus, Annals 14.12.
  4. ^ Suetonius, Vespasian 23.4.
  5. CIL XIV, 3661