In Later Fiction
The events of the divorce are dramatised in Octavia which is sometimes attributed to Seneca the Younger and, more recently, in Handel's lost opera Nero, Octavia (opera, 1705) by Keiser, and Claudio Monteverdi and Giovanni Francesco Busenello's L'incoronazione di Poppea. Octavia is a character in the novel and television series I Claudius and Claudius the God.
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