Julia
Julia,only daughter of Augustus (by Scribonia), was born in 39 BC and betrothed in 37 to Marcus Antonius Antyllus. She was brought up strictly by her father and stepmother Livia. In 25 she married her cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and in 21 Agrippa, to whom she bore Gaius and Lucius Caesar, the younger Julia, Agrippina the Elder (Vipsania Agrippina), and Agrippa Postumus. Her third marriage, to Tiberius (in 11), is said to have been happy at first, but estrangement followed, and her behaviour may have contributed to Tiberius' decision to retire from Rome in 6. In 2 BC Augustus learned of her alleged adulteries (e.g. with Iullus Antonius) and banished her to Pandateria; in AD 4 she was allowed to move to Rhegium. Scribonia voluntarily shared her exile. Augustus forbade her burial in his mausoleum, and Tiberius kept her closely confined and stopped her allowance, so that...
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