Distinguished Women of The Julio-Claudian House
- Agrippina the Elder (1st century), wife of Germanicus, granddaughter of Augustus, mother of emperor Caligula and Agrippina the Younger (below)
- Agrippina the Younger (1st century), niece and wife of emperor Claudius, mother of emperor Nero; held up as a bad example.
- Aurelia (1st century BC), Mother of Julius Caesar.
- Antonia Major (1st century BC), grandmother of Emperor Nero
- Antonia Minor (1st century BC-1st century AD), mother of Emperor Claudius and Germanicus, favorite niece of Augustus Caesar, considered a role model for women in the Roman Empire after she refused to remarry and spent the rest of her life raising her children and grandchildren.
- Atia Balba Caesonia, mother of Augustus and Octavia Minor.
- Claudia Julia (1st century),
- Claudia Pulchra, wife of Publius Quinctilius Varus
- Claudia Marcella, nieces of Caesar Augustus
- Domitia Lepida the Elder - aunt of Emperor Nero
- Domitia Lepida the Younger - sister of the following, Mother of the Empress Valeria Messalina
- Domitia Longina - wife of Emperor Domitian
- Domitia Lucilla - mother of Emperor Marcus Aurelius
- Domitia Paulina - female relatives of Emperor Hadrian
- Julia the Elder, daughter of Augustus
- Livia Drusilla (1st century BC), wife of Tiberius Claudius Nero, mother of the Emperor Tiberius, and then wife of Augustus Caesar. The first woman to be officially deified.
- Livilla (1st century), granddaughter of Livia
- Marcia, sister of the consul Quintus Marcius Rex, wife of Gaius Julius Caesar II, paternal grandmother of Julius Caesar.
- Messalina, Emperor Claudius' wife, notorious for her promiscuity.
- Octavia Minor, sister of Caesar Augustus and fourth wife of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony).
- Plautia Urgulanilla, Emperor Claudius' first wife
- Scribonia, second wife of Augustus and mother of his only legitimate child (whom she apparently ignored until her exile).
- Vipsania first wife of Tiberius and the only one he loved.
- Vipsania Julia, Granddaughter of Augustus
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