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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 her youngest daughter she was the mother-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, great-grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, and great ...
- ca. 70 BC
- AD 16 (aged ca. 86)
It is uncertain whether Scribonia remarried after the divorce from Octavian, but it is unlikely. When Julia fell into disgrace and was exiled in 2 bce, Scribonia voluntarily followed her daughter into exile, first to Pandateria and then to Rhegium (4 ce). Scribonia and Julia lived together until Julia died of malnutrition in 14.
Apr 26, 2022 · Scribonia was the daughter of a Lucius Scribonius Libo, probably the praetor of that name of 80 BC. Her brother of the same name was consul and died in 34 BC. The name of her mother was Sentia. According to Suetonius, Scribonia's first two marriages were to former consuls.
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Scribonia, sister of L. Scribonius Libo, was married at least three times. Her first two husbands, both of whom allegedly held the consulship, are hard to identify; by one of them (a Scipio) she was the mother of Cornelia, wife of Paullus *Aemilius Lepidus. The third was Octavian (see augustus), who married her in 40 bce in order to conciliate ...
Scribonia was born before 16, as in that year her father was executed on a charge of conspiracy against the Roman emperor Tiberius. Scribonia was born and raised in Rome. Very little is known of her life. Scribonia married Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi, [1] a man of consular rank. Frugi's father, consul and governor Marcus Licinius Crassus, was ...
Mar 26, 2019 · But the midwife Scribonia had gone up in the world: she had made a good marriage with a skilled healer, and she had acquired wealth. Like her husband, she had tools, which she brought to women in labour: the birthing chair and the stool on which she sat were hers. Childbirth in the Roman empire, as everywhere in the ancient world, was women’s ...
This article revises the existing explanations for the marriage between Octavian and Scribonia, which emphasised the young Caesar’s desire for an accommodation with Sextus Pompeius, including a mutual normalization of relations and even an alliance. In reality, such actions were never on the agenda of either politician. The marriage to Scribonia was primarily a message addressed by Octavian ...
