ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <html><head> <title>Julio-Claudian Genealogy - Julia Major</title></head> <body background="Augustus_bkgd_1.bmp" onLoad="window.moveTo(20,20); window.resizeTo(550,750);"> <!-- DYNASTY TITLE --> <div style="text-align:left; background-color:transparent; position:absolute; left:00px; top:20px; width:300px; height:40px; padding:0px;"> <table style="text-align:center; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: auto; background-color:yellow;" border="2" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"><colgroup span="2"><col span="1" width=300></col></colgroup> <tbody> <tr> <td style="background-color: rgb(127, 0, 255); "> <b><div style="color:yellow; text-align:center;">&#160;· The Julio-Claudian Dynasty ·&#160;</div></b> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <!-- CLOSE-WINDOW CODE --> <div style="text-align:center; background-color:transparent; position:absolute; left:80%; top:20px; width:50px; height:25px; padding:0px;"> <a tabindex=1 href="JavaScript:window.close()">Close</a> </div> <!-- PAGE TITLE --> <div style="text-align:left; background-color:transparent; position:absolute; left:15px; top:60px; width:400px; height:60px; padding:00px;"> <p><span style="color:darkgreen"><span style="font-size:larger;">Julia Major</span><br> Daughter of Augustus<br> (39 <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">b.c.</span> - 14 <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">a.d.</span>)</span></p> </div> <div style="text-align:left; background-color:transparent; position:absolute; left:00px; top:150px; width:auto; height:360px; margin-left:10px; margin-right:10px; padding:00px;"> <!-- START OF PAGE CONTENT --> <p>By way of promoting an alliance with <a tabindex=20 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextus_Pompey" target="_blank" title="Wikipedia article on Sextus Pompey">Sextus Pompey</a>, in 40&#160;<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">a.d.</span> Octavian (Augustus) married Scribonia (five years his senior, which was unusual in ancient Rome)&#160;;&#160; about a year later she would bear his only child, Julia, apparently on the day he divorced her for nagging him ... well, actually so that he might marry the beautiful <a tabindex=30 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livia" target="_blank" title="Wikipedia article on Livia">Livia Drusilla</a>.</p> <p>In 25&#160;<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">b.c.</span> Julia  known to us as Julia Major  married her cousin M. Claudius Marcellus, who died two years later&#160;;&#160; they had no children.</p> <p>Augustus eventually took personal control over raising the five children she bore her next husband, <a tabindex=40 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Vipsanius_Agrippa" target="_blank" title="Wikipedia article on Agrippa">Agrippa</a>, <span style="color:green">adopting two of her three sons  Gaius and Lucius</span>  in 17&#160;<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">b.c.</span>&#160;:&#160; both were dead by 4&#160;<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">a.d.</span>&#160;;&#160; her third son, born after the death of Agrippa and named Agrippa Postumus, died in exile in 14&#160;<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">a.d.</span></p> <p>Julia would eventually be exiled for scandalous behaviour, dying of starvation  organized, it was said, by Tiberius  in 14&#160;<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">a.d.</span>&#160; (Some ascribed her death to heartbreak on learning of the death of her third son.) </p> <!-- END OF PAGE CONTENT --> </div> </body> </html>