Octavia

Octavia. 1 d. 11 B.C., Roman matron, sister of Emperor Augustus and wife of Marc Antony, her second husband. For some years, she helped maintain peace between her brother and her husband. Antony fell in love with Cleopatra, and after his war with Augustus began, he divorced (32 B.C.) Octavia. After his death, she reared his children by Fulvia (his first wife) and by Cleopatra, as well as her own. 2 d. A.D. 62, Roman matron, daughter of Emperor Claudius I and Messalina and wife of Nero, whom she married in A.D. 53. Nero deserted her for Poppaea and divorced her. She was falsely accused of adultery, banished to Pandateria, an island in the Bay of Naples, and put to death. She is the subject of Octavia, a unique contemporaneous tragedy, erroneously attributed to Seneca.

Octavia may refer to:

People

• Octavia Major, elder half sister of Octavia Minor
• Octavia Minor, sister of Augustus, younger half sister of Octavia Major and fourth wife of Mark Antony
• Claudia Octavia, the daughter of Claudius and Valeria Messalina and first wife of Nero
• Octavia & The Earth Blood Blues Band, a blues band from Lancaster County, PA

Culture

• Octavia (Seneca play), dramatising Claudia Octavia's messy divorce
• Octavia (opera), by Reinhard Keiser
• Octavia (novel), a romance by Jilly Cooper
• Octavia (TV serial), an ITV adaptation of Cooper's novel, written by Jonathan Harvey
• Octavia is a character from the cartoon She-Ra: Princess of Power
• Octavia of the Julii, a character in HBO's television series Rome loosely based on Octavia Minor
• Octavia is a Kielian snake in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. She is a nest maid for Ezylryb and Madame Plonk.

Other

• Octavia is a supernatural flying ship from the book Heart of the Earth by Richard anderson
• Škoda Octavia is the name of small family car introduced by the Czech automobile manufacturer Škoda Auto
• Octavia Sperati (band), a doom metal band
• Octavia Boulevard is a street in San Francisco, California
• Octavia (Bolivian Band), a Bolivian Pop rock band
• "Octavia" is a song by Bruce Dickinson from the album Skunkworks
• 598 Octavia, an asteroid