Julia the Younger

Iulia (actually Vipsania Julia Agrippina; named to distinguish it from her mother Iulia minor) (* 19/18 BC; † 28 AD) was a daughter of Agrippa and iulias, the daughter of the Roman Emperor Augustus.

Julia grew up with her ​​sister Agrippina up with her step-grandmother Livia Drusilla. In the year 4 BC it was Lucius Aemilius Paullus with her cousin ( Augustus ' first wife was Scribonia both their grandmother ) married. With him she had a daughter, Aemilia Lepida who was betrothed to the future emperor Claudius.

In the year 8 AD Iulia was - as her mother and her brother Agrippa Postumus in front of her - banished, allegedly because of their lifestyle. According to Tacitus, she had an affair with Decimus Silanus, the brother of Marcus Junius Silanus. Occasionally, one suspects that the poet Ovid, who was also banned in the same year, was involved in the affair. The betrothal of the daughter of Claudius was dissolved. Modern historians suspect that iulias exile had its origin more to do in their participation in the conspiracy against her husband Augustus. Julia died at her banishment to the Tremiti Islands. Her daughter married Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus, Decimus Junius Silanus a relative of. All your descendants were murdered by Agrippina the Younger.