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Octavia the Younger
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<p>Octavia the Younger was the elder sister of the first <a href="/facts/Roman_emperor/sT4nFc67">Roman emperor</a>, <a href="/facts/Augustus/RGfMCR2V">Augustus</a> (known also as Octavian), the half-sister of <a href="/facts/Octavia_the_Elder/loYdhV6K">Octavia the Elder</a>, and the fourth wife of <a href="/facts/Mark_Antony/Yb4yXKrs">Mark Antony</a>. She was also the great-grandmother of the Emperor <a href="/facts/Caligula/3PUxgNf8">Caligula</a> and Empress <a href="/facts/Agrippina_the_Younger/9jtaryDj">Agrippina the Younger</a>, maternal grandmother of the Emperor <a href="/facts/Claudius/WJ31y54a">Claudius</a>, and paternal great-grandmother and maternal great-great-grandmother of the Emperor <a href="/facts/Nero/1w3NteNP">Nero</a>. </p><p>One of the most prominent women in Roman history, Octavia was respected and admired by contemporaries for her loyalty, nobility and humanity, as well as for maintaining traditional Roman feminine virtues. </p>