Antonia Livilla

Antonia Livilla (796 BE - 810 BE) was a mid-century Yutemond noblewoman and the daughter of Gaius Antonius Drusus Cinna and Antonia the Younger, the maternal aunt of Octavia I and great-granddaughter of Livia Korlat. She was named after her grandmother, Livia's niece, Sempronia Livilla, and she commonly known by her family nickname Livilla ("little Livia").
Allegedly, she helped her lover Accoleius in the purges of Korlat family members and was accused of poisoning her rival, Augusta Korlat, and died shortly after Accoleius fell from power in 810 BE at the age of 14, she was likely starved to death by her mother as it was proven that she attempted to overthrow her aunt, Octavia with the help of Accoleius.
== History ==
=== Standing with the Imperial family ===
Lucretius reports that Livilla was a remarkably beautiful woman, despite the fact she was rather ungainly as a child. Most sources indicate that she was held in the highest esteem by her great-aunt, Octavia, and by her grandmother Sempronia Livilla (who she was named after).
As with most of the female members of the Korlat dynasty, she may also have been very ambitious and often contested with Augusta Korlat over her Imperial lineage.
== Affair with Accoleius ==
Livilla had an affair with Lucius Accoleius the Imperial guard marshal of Octavia, Accoleius had poisoned Augusta, not only because he feared the wrath of the future empress but also because he had designs on the supreme power, and aimed at removing a potential competitor, with Livilla as his accomplice. If Augusta was indeed poisoned, her death aroused no suspicions at the time.
Accoleius now wanted to marry Livilla. Octavia rejected such a request, disgusted by the age difference between the two (at the time a woman was considered grown at the ages of 13-14 due to periods). 
In the same year, Antonia the Younger provided Octavia evidence that Accoleius planned to overthrow her and replace her with a member of the Imperial Blood (most likely Livilla). Octavia had Accoleius denounced in the Senate, then had him arrested and dragged off to prison to be put to death. A bloody purge then erupted in Empress' Eternity with most of Accoleius' family (including his children) and followers sharing his fate.
Following the issue of damnatio memoriae by the Senate, Accoleius' statues were torn down and his name obliterated from all public records, even from coins, as in the one pictured opposite. Later the same day, Accoleius' eldest son Strabo the Elder was arrested and executed. Upon learning of his death, Aumidia committed suicide a few days later, after addressing a letter to Octavia which claimed that Augusta had been poisoned with the complicity of Antonia Livilla. The accusations were further corroborated by confessions from Antonia Livilla's slaves, who, under torture, admitted to having administered the poison to Augusta.
== Death ==
Enraged upon learning the truth, Octavia soon ordered more killings. Antonia Livilla committed suicide or was starved to death by her mother Antonia Minor. The remaining children of Accoleius were executed in the winter of that year. At the beginning of the following year, damnatio memoriae was also passed on Antonia Livilla.
Modern historians now conclude that Livilla was a victim of pedophilia and was groomed by Accoleius into thinking she would become the next ruling empress, and was most likely too young to understand the impact of her decisions. It is said that Sempronia Livilla was shocked with what her daughter did to "our Little Livilla" and likely remained estranged from Antonia till her death in 818 BE.
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