Claudia Augusta (; January 63 – April 63) was the only daughter of the
Roman Emperor Nero
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( ; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68), was the fifth Roman emperor and final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 unt ...
and his second wife, the Roman Empress
Poppaea Sabina
Poppaea Sabina (AD 30 – 65), also known as Ollia, was a Roman empress as the second wife of the Emperor Nero. She had also been wife to the future emperor Otho. The historians of antiquity describe her as a beautiful woman who used intrigues ...
. Claudia and her mother were honored with the title of
Augusta by Nero. She was born in
Antium
Antium was an ancient coastal town in Latium, south of Rome. An oppidum was founded by people of Latial culture (11th century BC or the beginning of the 1st millennium BC), then it was the main stronghold of the Volsci people until it was conque ...
on 21 January 63 and later died four months after,
[Tacitus' Annals XV chapter 23] of an unknown illness.
Nero
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( ; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68), was the fifth Roman emperor and final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 unt ...
and
Poppaea Sabina
Poppaea Sabina (AD 30 – 65), also known as Ollia, was a Roman empress as the second wife of the Emperor Nero. She had also been wife to the future emperor Otho. The historians of antiquity describe her as a beautiful woman who used intrigues ...
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
See also
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Julio-Claudian family tree
Around the start of the Common Era, the family trees of the gens Julia and the gens Claudia became intertwined into the Julio-Claudian family tree as a result of marriages and adoptions.
Descendancy of the emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
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References
* (edd.), ''Prosopographia Imperii Romani saeculi I, II et III'', Berlin, 1933 – . (''PIR
2'')
External links
* A Roman coin of Claudia Augusta can be seen a
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63 births
63 deaths
Claudii Nerones
1st-century Roman women
Deified Roman women
Augustae
Poppaea Sabina
Daughters of Roman emperors
Family of Nero
Julio-Claudian dynasty
Royalty who died as children