Antonia Minor

Born 31 January 36 BC, Antonia Minor was the younger daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor, which made her both Augustus's niece and a living bridge between the republic's last civil war and the empire that followed. She married Nero Claudius Drusus, and when he died she refused to remarry, raising their children alone. Her son Claudius would become emperor. Her grandchildren included Caligula, who ruled, and Agrippina the Younger, who bore Nero. She outlived her husband, her oldest son, her daughter, and several grandchildren — a procession of funerals that traced the shape of the Julio-C…