Octavia Maior
Octavia Maior ("Octavia the Elder", * before 70 BC) was an older half-sister of Octavian, the later Roman Emperor Augustus , and Octavia Minor .
Life
Little is known about Octavia's life. She was the daughter of Gaius Octavius , who belonged to a knightly but wealthy branch of the Octavier family , and his first wife, Ancharia , who came from a senatorial family . Octavia married an Appuleius and became the mother of Sextus Appuleius , consul from 29 BC. The depiction of an older woman on the north frieze of the Ara Pacis could be identified with Octavia Maior.
The ancient biographer Plutarch knows only one sister Octavia of Augustus and therefore confuses the older and younger Octavia.
literature
- Robert Fischer: Octavia [1]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 8, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01478-9 , Sp. 1095.
- Gertrud Herzog-Hauser : Octavia 95). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XVII, 2, Stuttgart 1937, column 1858 f.
- Mary White Singer: The Problem of Octavia Minor and Octavia Maior. In: Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. Volume 79, 1948, pp. 268-274.
Remarks
- ^ Suetonius , Augustus 4, 1 .
- ↑ An inscription from Carthage ( CIL 8, 24583 ) is usually attributed to him. Afterwards he was quaestor , city praetor and flamen Iulialis (priest for the deified Caesar ). But the honor could also have gone to his son; see. John Pollini: Ahenobarbi, Appuleii and some others on the Ara Pacis. In: American Journal of Archeology. Volume 90, 1986, No. 4, pp. 453-460, especially pp. 456-457.
- ^ Inscription of a statue honoring from Pergamon : Inscriptions from Pergamon 2, 419 ( digitized version ) = Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes 4, 323 = Wilhelm Dittenberger , Orientis Graeci inscriptiones selectae 462 .
- ^ John Pollini: Ahenobarbi, Appuleii and some others on the Ara Pacis. In: American Journal of Archeology. Volume 90, 1986, No. 4, p. 459; an older man on the frieze could be her husband (ibid. pp. 458–459), a middle-aged Flemish her son (ibid. pp. 456–458).
- ↑ Plutarch, Antonius 31, 1f. ( English translation ) and 87.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Octavia Maior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Octavia the elder |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sister of Augustus, wife of Sextus Appuleius |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 70 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |