Julia Livilla

(18 AD-42 AD)

BIRTH

18 AD

PLACE

Lesbos, Greece

DEATH

42 AD

PLACE

Ventotene, Italy

FAMILY

CHILDREN

Agrippina the Elder

(14 BC-33 AD)

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Julia Livilla (18–c.41/42 CE) was the youngest daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder and a sister of Caligula. She married Marcus Vinicius in 33. Initially honored under Caligula, she was exiled in 39 after an alleged conspiracy and recalled when Claudius became emperor. A second exile followed accusations involving Seneca, and she died soon afterward, reportedly by starvation. Ancient accounts leave the charges and circumstances of her death uncertain.

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EARLY LIFE

Julia Livilla was born in AD 18 on the island of Lesbos, while her parents, Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, were traveling in the East. She was their youngest child. Her father died the next year, and she grew up during the years when Sejanus persecuted her mother and brothers. In AD 33 the emperor Tiberius arranged her marriage to Marcus Vinicius, a senator. When her brother Caligula became emperor in AD 37, he granted Livilla and her sisters extraordinary honors.

After Caligula was assassinated in AD 41, their uncle Claudius recalled them to Rome.

Later in AD 41 the empress Messalina, reportedly jealous of Livilla's influence, had her charged with adultery with the philosopher Seneca. Seneca was banished to Corsica, and Livilla was exiled again. She was put to death, reportedly by starvation, in AD 41 or 42.

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DEATH

In AD 39 Livilla and her sister Agrippina the Younger were accused of taking part in a conspiracy against Caligula with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, the widower of their sister Drusilla. Later in AD 41 the empress Messalina, reportedly jealous of Livilla's influence, had her charged with adultery with the philosopher Seneca. Seneca was banished to Corsica, and Livilla was exiled again. Julia Livilla (18–c.41/42 CE) was the youngest daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder and a sister of Caligula. Initially honored under Caligula, she was exiled in 39 after an alleged conspiracy and recalled when Claudius became emperor. A second exile followed accusations involving Seneca, and she died soon afterward, reportedly by starvation. Ancient accounts leave the charges and circumstances of her death uncertain. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.