13 Facts About Antonia Minor

Antonia Minor was the younger of two surviving daughters of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor.

Antonia Minor outlived her husband Drusus, her oldest son, her daughter, and several of her grandchildren.

Antonia Minor was born in Athens, and after 36 BC was taken to Rome by her mother with her siblings.

Antonia Minor's mother had three children, named Claudia Marcella Major, Claudia Marcella Minor, and Marcus Claudius Marcellus, from her first marriage and another daughter, named Antonia Major, by the same father.

Antonia Minor was raised by her mother, her uncle, and her aunt, Livia Drusilla and inherited properties in Italy, Greece, and Egypt.

Antonia Minor was said to have received visitors to her house, such as Valerius Asiaticus and Lucius Vitellius, a consul and the father of the future emperor Aulus Vitellius.

Tacitus suggests but does not outright say in Annals 3.3 that, on the orders of Tiberius and Livia Drusilla, Antonia Minor was forbidden to go to his funeral.

Cassius Dio states that Antonia Minor imprisoned Livilla in her room until she starved to death.

Antonia Minor died at a time when the euphoria of the beginning of his reign was still rampant, and quite apart from any question of personal affection, a public slight at this time to the most respected woman in Rome, whose death was marked in local Fasti, would have been politically unimaginable.

Antonia Minor's birthday became a public holiday, which had yearly games and public sacrifices held.

Antonia Minor is one of the main characters in the novel I, Claudius.

Antonia Minor is a loyal wife deeply in love with her husband Nero Claudius Drusus.

Antonia Minor is a leading character in the novel by Lindsey Davis, The Course of Honour, where she guides and advises Claudius and his supporters.