Lucius Antonius (grandson of Mark Antony)


Lucius Antonius was the son of Iullus Antonius and Claudia Marcella Major.

Biography

Early life

From his mother first marriage he had two older half-sisters named Vipsania Marcella and Vipsania Marcellina. Some epigraphic evidence suggests he had a sister named Iulla Antonia. In 2 BC his father was charged with adultery with Julia and was forced to commit suicide. Lucius was sent to Marseille as a result of his father's indiscretion. He was sent there under the pretence of "studying", and it was not an official exile but was in practise the same as one. Once there he studied law.

Later life

records his death in AD 25 at Ann. 4.44.4-5. Despite his fathers actions the senate decreed that he should be honoured with a burial at the Tomb of the Octavii, which was the tomb of his maternal grandmother Octavia Minor.

Cultural depictions

A boy on the Ara Pacis has been identified by some to possibly be Lucius.