Octavia
Octavia
(ɒkˈteɪvɪə)Oc•ta•vi•a
(ɒkˈteɪ vi ə)n.
| 单词 | octavia |
| 释义 | OctaviaOctavia(ɒkˈteɪvɪə)Oc•ta•vi•a(ɒkˈteɪ vi ə)n. OctaviaOctavia(ŏktā`vēə). 1 d. 11 B.C., Roman matron, sister of Emperor AugustusAugustus, 63 B.C.–A.D. 14, first Roman emperor, a grandson of the sister of Julius Caesar. Named at first Caius Octavius, he became on adoption by the Julian gens (44 B.C.) Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Octavian); Augustus was a title of honor granted (27 B.C. ..... Click the link for more information. and wife of Marc AntonyAntony or Marc Antony, Lat. Marcus Antonius, c.83 B.C.–30 B.C., Roman politican and soldier. He was of a distinguished family; his mother was a relative of Julius Caesar. ..... Click the link for more information. , her second husband. For some years, she helped maintain peace between her brother and her husband. Antony fell in love with CleopatraCleopatra , 69 B.C.–30 B.C., queen of Egypt, one of the great romantic heroines of all time. Her name was widely used in the Ptolemaic family; she was Cleopatra VII. ..... Click the link for more information. , and after his war with Augustus began, he divorced (32 B.C.) Octavia. After his death, she reared his children by Fulvia (his first wife) and by Cleopatra, as well as her own. 2 d. A.D. 62, Roman matron, daughter of Emperor Claudius IClaudius I (Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus) , 10 B.C.–A.D. 54, Roman emperor (A.D. 41–A.D. 54), son of Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus and thus nephew of Tiberius. When Caligula was murdered (A.D. ..... Click the link for more information. and MessalinaMessalina (Valeria Messalina) , d. A.D. 48, Roman empress, wife of Claudius I. She was the mother of his children, Britannicus and Octavia. Her reputation for greed and lust was supposedly unknown to her husband until, in Claudius' absence, she publicly married her lover Caius ..... Click the link for more information. and wife of NeroNero (Nero Claudius Caesar) , A.D. 37–A.D. 68, Roman emperor (A.D. 54–A.D. 68). He was originally named Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and was the son of Cnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul in A.D. ..... Click the link for more information. , whom she married in A.D. 53. Nero deserted her for Poppaea SabinaPoppaea Sabina , d. A.D. 65, Roman empress, wife of Nero. While married to Otho, her second husband, she became mistress of Nero, whom she finally married in A.D. 62. She had great influence over Nero, inducing him to have his mother (Agrippina the Younger), his former wife ..... Click the link for more information. and divorced her. She was falsely accused of adultery, banished to Pandataria (Ventotene), an island in the Bay of Naples, and put to death. She is the subject of Octavia, a unique contemporaneous tragedy, erroneously attributed to Seneca. |
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