Claudia Augusta (; January 63 – April 63) was the only daughter of the Roman Emperor

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and his second wife, the Roman Empress

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. Claudia and her mother were honored with the title of Augusta by Nero. She was born in

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on 21 January 63 and later died four months after,Tacitus' Annals XV chapter 23 of an unknown illness. Nero 1

and

mourned her death and Claudia was declared a goddess. Gold statues were placed in temples and circus games were held in Claudia's honor while a shrine and a priest were dedicated to her shortly afterward.

Ancestry

References

* (edd.), ''Prosopographia Imperii Romani saeculi I, II et III'', Berlin, 1933 – . (''PIR²'')

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* A Roman coin of Claudia Augusta can be seen a

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Ancestry

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