Octavia Minor

Octavia Muda (66-11 SM), juga disebut sebagai Octavia Minor atau singkatnya Octavia, adalah kakak dari Kaisar Romawi pertama, Augustus (juga disebut sebagai Oktavianus), saudari seayah dari Octavia the Elder, dan istri keempat dari Markus Antonius. Ia juga merupakan nenek buyut dari Kaisar Caligula dan Permaisuri Agrippina Muda, nenek pihak ibu dari Kaisar Klaudius, dan nenek buyut pihak ayah dan nenek canggah pihak ibu dari Kaisar Nero.

Octavia Minor
Kelahiran	66 SM Nola, Republik Romawi
Kematian	11 SM (usia 55) Roma, Kekaisaran Romawi
Pemakaman	Mausoleum Augustus
Pasangan	Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor Markus Antonius
Keturunan	Marcus Claudius Marcellus Claudia Marcella Major Claudia Marcella Minor Antonia Major Antonia Minor
Ayah	Gaius Octavius
Ibu	Atia Balba Caesonia

Salah satu wanita paling berpengaruh dalam sejarah Romawi, Octavia dihormati dan disanjung oleh orang-orang sezamannya karena loyalitasnya, kebangsawanannya dan rasa kemanusiaannya, dan karena menjunjungi nilai-nilai feminim Romawi tradisional.

Bacaan tambahan

Kehidupan

• Details on Octavia pt 1 Diarsipkan 2006-05-11 di Wayback Machine. "Octavian was much attached to his sister, and she possessed all the charms, accomplishments and virtues likely to fascinate the affections and secure a lasting influence over the mind of a husband. Her beauty was universally allowed to be superior to that of Cleopatra and her virtue was such as to excite even admiration in an age of growing licentiousness and corruption."
• Details on Octavia pt 2 Diarsipkan 2006-05-11 di Wayback Machine.
• Nuttall Encyclopedia profile says merely that she was "distinguished for her beauty and her virtue"

Diskusi

• Octavia's birth and life discussed briefly
• Octavia's marriage discussed briefly

Keluarga dan keturunan

• Marcellus, Octavia's only son who died aged 20 Diarsipkan 2011-06-06 di Wayback Machine.
• Julia, Octavia's daughter-in-law and niece Diarsipkan 2014-07-28 di Wayback Machine.

Sumber cetak

• Cluett, Ronald. “Roman women and triumviral politics, 43-37 B.C.” Echos du monde classique. Classical views 17, no. 1 (1998), 67-84.
• Erhart, K. P. “A new portrait type of Octavia Minor (?).” The J. Paul Getty Museum journal 8 (1980), 117-28.
• Fischer. Fulvia und Octavia: die beiden Ehefrauen des Marcus Antonius in den politischen Kämpfen der Umbruchszeit zwischen Republik und Principat. Berlin: Logos-Verl., 1999.
• Foubert, Lien. “Vesta and Julio-Claudian women in imperial propaganda.” Ancient society 45 (2015), 187-204.
• Freisenbruch, Annelise. 2010. The first ladies of rome: The women behind the caesars. London: Jonathan Cape.

Pranala luar

• Octavia entry in historical sourcebook by Mahlon H. Smith
• Livius.org: Octavia Minor Diarsipkan 2013-09-28 di Wayback Machine.