{"id":59128,"date":"2020-02-10T16:54:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T15:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/caesar-antony-augustus-family-connections\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T10:09:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T09:09:26","slug":"caesar-antony-augustus-family-connections","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/caesar-antony-augustus-family-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Caesar, Antony, Augustus &#8211; family connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fall of the Republic and the beginnings of the Roman Empire is a fascinating period in world history. <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/gaius-julius-caesar\/\">Julius Caesar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/mark-antony\/\">Marek Antony<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/augustus\/\">Octavian Augustus<\/a> undoubtedly had a great impact on the fate of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a> at that time. It can be said that their actions have changed the world. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>An interesting fact is that all three were related. They had a common ancestor several generations earlier. Sextus <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/gaius-julius-caesar\/\">Julius Caesar<\/a> was the great-great-grandfather of Julius <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/caesar-queen-of-nicomedes\/\">Caesar<\/a>, great-great-great-grandfather of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/mark-antony\/\">Mark Antony<\/a> and great-great-great-great-grandfather of Octavian <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/augustus\/\">Augustus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Already after the death of Julius Caesar, Marek Antony, to strengthen the alliance with Octavian Augustus, married his sister <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/octavia-the-younger\/\">Octavia the Younger<\/a>. Their younger daughter <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/antonia-the-younger\/\">Antonia the Younger<\/a> was the mother of the emperor <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/klaudiusz\/\">Claudius<\/a>, the grandmother of the emperor <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/caligula\/\">Caligula<\/a>, and the great-grandmother of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/nero\/\">emperor Nero<\/a>. And also the sister-in-law of the emperor <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/tiberius\/\">Tiberius<\/a>. Everything remained in the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":116638,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-59128","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/59128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/59128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=59128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}