Julia

Julia, the only child of the Roman emperor Augustus, was his daughter by his second wife, Scribonia, and was born in 39 B.C. She was distinguished for her beauty and talents, and was married at fourteen to Marcus Claudius Marcellus, the sister's son of Augustus. After his death two years later, she was married to Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, to whom she bore three sons and two daughters. He in his turn died in the year 12 B.C., whereupon Julia was given in marriage next year to Tiberius; his mother, Livia, the stepmother of Julia, persuading Augustus to this, in order to secure the succession of Tiberius to the throne. The marriage was an unhappy one, and the conduct of Julia herself far from irreproachable; but it was Livia's hatred rather than any lofty regard for virtue that procured the unhappy Julia's banishment to the isle of Pandataria. From Pandataria, whither her divorced mother, Scribonia, accompanied her, she was removed to Rhegium, where she was allowed by Tiberius to remain destitute even of common comforts till her death in 14 A.D. Her son, Agrippa Postumus, was put to death by Tiberius shortly before the death of his mother. Her other sons, C. and L. Cæsar, died in early age. Her daughters survived her. The elder, Julia, inherited her mother's frailty, and died in 28, in the isle of Trimerus, on the coast of Apulia, whither she had been banished by Augustus twenty years before for adultery. The younger, the virtuous Agrippina (q.v.), died in 33, in Pandataria, to which she had been banished by Tiberius.