May 28, 2024
refusing to be undone.
Atia Balba, niece to Julius Caesar, died only a year after his assassination, and was survived by her two children, Octavia the Younger and Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, who she had named Gaius Octavius at birth. Both her son and daughter would outlive her by several years.
#historyedit#perioddramaedit#history#ancient history#roman history#ancient rome#octavia the younger#octavian#augustus#my edits#my stuff#yes i hate domina yes i will use gifs of it for my rome stuff#if only because there's no other option and tgc could have played an amazing augustus if he had a better script#and yes i am using olivia for octavia cuz she and tom look a lot alike#so they should play these aristocratic orphans someone give me money for it#anyway the fact that they spent far longer without their parents than with them will always be fascinating to me#especially octavian cuz caesar died just before atia#and he and caesar had a connection that octavia wasn't a part of#(also imagine being octavia man)#(your little brother becomes head of the family during a lot of familial turmoil and starts killing just so many people)#(how did she feel about that as his older sister? as the only immediate family he had? when he's also the only immediate family SHE had)
