Background
From then until 43, she was raised by her father. In 43, she first married Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, a descendant of Pompeia (daughter of Pompey the Great).
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Claudia Antonia
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According to Suetonius Pompeius was stabbed to death several years later (AD 46/47), when he was caught in bed with a favorite boy. The death of Pompeius left Antonia free to marry Messalina"s half-brother Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix. They had a son who was frail and died before his second birthday.
In 58, Faustus Sulla was exiled, and in 62 he was murdered at the order of the Emperor Nero.
In 65, Tacitus records the rumour that Gaius Calpurnius Piso intended to marry Antonia, as an element of his conspiracy against Nero. After the death of the Empress Poppaea Sabina, Nero"s second wife, Nero asked Antonia to marry him.
When Antonia refused, Nero had her charged with an attempt of rebellion and executed. She was the last living grandchild of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor, from whom Nero also was descended but one generation more distantly.
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Levick, Barbara, Claudius, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1990. Barrett, Anthony A., Agrippina: Sex, Power and Politics in the Early Roman Empire, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1996.
Griffin, Miriam, Nero.
The End of a Dynasty, Batsford, London, 1984
In Literature
Antonia and Pompey are omitted entirely in the 1976 television adaptation. Portraiture
Poulsen, Vagn, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
Les portraits romains I: République et dynastie julienne, Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1962, 111 Near 74 Taf. 128 ff. Boschung, Dietrich, Überlegungen zum Liciniergrab, JdI 101, 1986, pp.
