Sempronia, Mother of Fulvia
Sempronia (circa 123 - 63 B.C.) was the daughter of Sempronius Tuditanus, according to Cicero, who describes her father as a madman who was accustomed to throwing his money to the people from the Rostra. She married Marcus Fulvius Flaccus Bambalio. Their daughter, Fulvia, married the Roman politicians Publius Clodius Pulcher, Gaius Scribonius Curio and Marcus Antonius, all of them considered demagogues. Sempronia's husband was still alive when Fulvia was married to Clodius. Sempronia's grandchildren included Clodia Pulchra the first wife of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, afterwards the emperor Augustus; as well as two sons of Antonius, Marcus Antonius Antyllus, and Iullus Antonius.
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