Lucius Antonius (grandson of Mark Antony)

Lucius Antonius (20 BC – AD 25) was the son of Iullus Antonius (son of Mark Antony) and Claudia Marcella Major (niece of emperor Augustus).

Lucius Antonius
Children	Marcus Antonius Primus (possibly)
Parents	Iullus Antonius (father) Claudia Marcella Major (mother)
Relatives	Octavia Minor, maternal grandmother
Family	Julio-Claudian dynasty

Biography

Early life

From his mother first marriage he had two older half-sisters named Vipsania Marcella and Vipsania Marcellina. Some epigraphic evidence suggests he had a sister (or possibly a daughter) named Iulla Antonia.[1] In 2 BC his father was charged with adultery with Julia (daughter of Augustus) and was forced to commit suicide. Lucius was sent to Marseille as a result of his father's indiscretion. He was sent there under the pretence of "studying", and it was not an official exile but was in practise the same as one.[2] Once there he studied law.

Later life

Tacitus records his death in AD 25 at Ann. 4.44.4-5.[3] Despite his fathers actions the senate decreed that he should be honoured with a burial at the Tomb of the Octavii, which was the tomb of his maternal grandmother Octavia Minor.[2]

Cultural depictions

A boy on the Ara Pacis has been identified by some to possibly be Lucius.[4][5]

References

1. CIL VI, 11959. She must have survived infancy if a freedman set up an inscription about her.
2. Phoenix. 18–19. University of Michigan: University of Toronto Press. 1964. p. 143.
3. "The Annals of Tacitus ...: Books I-VI - Cornelius Tacitus - Google Books". Books.google.com. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
4. Rehak, Paul (2009). Imperium and Cosmos: Augustus and the Northern Campus Martius. Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. 131. ISBN 9780299220143.
5. Pollini, John (1987). The Portraiture of Gaius and Lucius Caesar. Fordham University Press. p. 28. ISBN 9780823211272.

Sources

• Tacitus - The Annals of Imperial Rome
• Suetonius - The Twelve Caesars