Julia Caesaris and her husband, the praetor and commissioner Marcus Atius Balbus, had 3 daughters, all named Atia Balba. They were nieces of Julius Caesar, and one of them was the mother of Caesar Augustus. Julia Caesaris is the name of all women in the Julii Caesares patrician family (to which, for instance Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus belonged), since feminine names were their fathers gens and cognomen declined in the female form. ... Bust of Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (Classical Latin: IMP·C·IVLIVS·CAESAR·DIVVS¹) (b. ... Bust of Augustus Caesar Caesar Augustus (Latin: IMP·CAESAR·DIVI·F·AVGVSTVS)¹ (23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), known earlier in his life as Gaius Octavius or Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, was the first Roman Emperor and is traditionally considered the greatest. ...
Atia Balba Prima was the mother of Quintus Pedius, the suffect consul of 43 BC. Her grandson, also named Quintus Pedius, was a deaf painter beloved of Augustus. He died in AD 13.
Atia Balba Caesonia (85 BC-43 BC) married the Macedonian governor and senator Gaius Octavius, and by him became the mother of Octavia—Octavius' second daughter of that name, and the wife of Mark Antony—and Octavian, later Caesar Augustus. In 59 BC, Octavius died on his way to Rome to stand for the consulship, and Atia married Lucius Marcius Philippus, the consul of 56 BC and a supporter of Julius Caesar. He loved raising his stepchildren alongside his own son from a previous marriage and arranged Octavia's first marriage, to the consul and senator Gaius Claudius Marcellus. Atia was a religious and caring matron. She had doubts about her son's legitimacy as Caesar's heir. She died during her son's first consulship, in August/September43 BC. Octavian gave her the highest honours at her funeral.
Atia Balba Tertia, called Julia, was the mother of Lucius Pinarius.
AtiaBalba is the name of Julia (the beloved niece of Julius Caesar) and Marcus Atius Balbus' three daughters, one of which was the mother of Caesar Augustus.
AtiaBalba Prima was the mother of Quintus Pedius, the suffect consul of 43 BC.
AtiaBalbaCaesonia (85 BC-43 BC) married the Macedonian governor and senator Gaius Octavius.
Atia is (very) loosely based on the historical personage of AtiaBalbaCaesonia - a Roman matron, and mother of Augustus Caesar.
Atia's first scene in the series sees her partaking in a fertility ritual in which a bull is sacrificed on a platform above her, drenching her in its sacred blood.
AtiaBalbaCaesonia was the second daughter of Julius Caesar's elder sister Julia and Marcus Atius Balbus, son of a Senator from Aricia.
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