Claudia Octavia
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Claudia Octavia was a Roman empress. She was the daughter of the Emperor Claudius and Valeria Messalina. After her mother's death and father's remarriage to her cousin Agrippina the Younger, she became the stepsister of the future Emperor Nero. She also became his wife, in a marriage between the two which was arranged by Agrippina.
Portrait head of Claudia Octavia, National Museum of Rome
Octavia as a child, statue at the Archaeological and Art Museum of Maremma in Tuscany
Bust of Octavia, Cleveland Museum of Art
Coin of Claudia Octavia
Claudius
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Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was a Roman emperor, ruling from ADÂ 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Claudius was born to Drusus and Antonia Minor at Lugdunum in Roman Gaul, where his father was stationed as a military legate. He was the first Roman emperor to be born outside Italy.
Bust, Naples National Archaeological Museum
Bust of Claudius's mother, Antonia Minor
A coin of Herod of Chalcis, showing him with his brother Agrippa of Judaea crowning Claudius, AD 43.
Detail from A Roman Emperor 41 AD, c. 1871.