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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 27 May 2026
- ISBN 9780197842942
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 234x161x17 mm
- Weight 426 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 36 photos and 2 maps 700
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Short description:
Octavia: The Life of a Roman Matron Between Antony and Augustus explores Octavia's significant role during the transition from the Roman Republic to the Empire. By following Octavia's life, it narrates this turbulent period of Roman history that involved many different actors, experiments, and innovations. It also carefully examines surviving sources to see when and how Octavia's overwhelmingly positive reputation developed.
MoreLong description:
Octavia Minor (c. 69--11 BCE) was the elder sister of the first Roman Emperor Augustus, the fourth wife of his ally and subsequent rival Mark Antony, and ancestor of the emperors Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. Such a genealogy positions her squarely at the center of events as Rome transitioned from Republic to civil war to Empire.
Octavia traces this elite woman's significant role in a turbulent period of Roman history. It explores the major events of Octavia's life, including her coming of age in the late Republic, her pivotal role as wife of Mark Antony and sister of Octavian during the triumviral conflicts, and finally her exemplary motherhood in the early years of the Augustan regime.
This book analyses contemporary evidence from coins, statues, poetry, and inscriptions to counterbalance the picture of Octavia and her contemporaries that survives in literary sources indelibly marked by the propaganda of the final war between her brother and her husband, and her brother's triumphant transformation into the first emperor. Octavia's life thus reveals changes to the social and political landscape for women and men of the Roman elite--and how these changes came about--as the Republican system disintegrated and a new imperial one emerged.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Timeline
Maps
1. Introduction
2. Coming of Age in the Late Republic
3. Interceding with Triumvirs
4. Repairing the Triumvirate: Wedding Antony
5. Wife of the Triumvir in the East
6. Between Brother and Husband: Triumviral Mediator
7. Sacrosanct Matron: The Honors of 35
8. Matchmaking Empire
9. (Re)Modeling Motherhood in the Early Augustan Period
10. Final Impressions
Works Cited
Index
