Antonia (daughter of Mark Antony)

Antonia (* about 54-49 BC) was a daughter of the later Roman triumvir Mark Antony and his wife Antonia. It is not to be confused with the homonymous daughters Antonia of the elderly and Antonia the Younger of Anthony of Octavia.

As early May 44 BC, about one and a half months after the assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar, which arrived as a major heritage provided grandnephew Octavian in Rome and accepted the inheritance, Antony saw him once a competitor. Although as a leading Caesarian and consul Antonius had a much greater position of power as Octavian, he sought his position through a connection with the second major Caesarian, the former magister equitum and later triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, to strengthen. Therefore, he appointed the end of May 44 BC Lepidus as Pontifex maximus and betrothed his daughter Antonia with a son of Lepidus.

Theodor Mommsen identified Antonia, daughter of Antony, with the same wife of wealthy Asians Pythodoros of Tralles, who was the mother of Pythodoris, the wife of Polemon I of Pontus. Thus, Antonia engagement with Lepidus ' son had been previously dissolved. Mommsen's theory is not encountered in research with unanimous consent. So they doubted about the Zurich historian Christian Marek.