Scribonia (wife of Octavian)

Scribonia
Bust of Scribonia from the Summer Garden
Bornca. 70 BC
DiedAD 16 (aged 85)
SpousesGnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus
Octavian
IssueCornelius Marcellinus
Cornelia
Julia the Elder

Scribonia (c. 70 BC[1][2] – c. AD 16)[3] was the second[4] wife of Octavian, later the Roman Emperor Augustus, and the mother of his only biological child, Julia the Elder. Through this daughter, she was the mother-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, great-grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, and great-great-grandmother of the Emperor Nero.

  1. ^ Leon, Ernestine F. (1951). "Scribonia and Her Daughters". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 82 (1951): 168–175. doi:10.2307/283429. JSTOR 283429.
  2. ^ Fantham, Elaine (2006). Julia Augusti: The Emperor's Daughter. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 17. ISBN 978-0415331463.
  3. ^ For evidence of Scribonia being alive c. 16, see Seneca, Epistles, LXX.10.
  4. ^ Suetonius, Life of Augustus, 62.1–2.