Talk:Octavia the Younger

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Sources[edit]

Excellent article, but should not the Sources that link to ancientlibrary.com be given in term of the reference books that the site is hosting? It is not the site that's important, it is the published work. The site could vanish eventually, the book remains the book. No reason you can't have a link to the page in the book reference though:

Smith, J. - This is my book, SomePublisher and Sons (1992), pg. 353-354 [1]

Vedexent 14:15, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article name[edit]

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people)#Senior and junior notes that "Elder/Younger" is preferred over "Major/Minor"; is there a consensus of sources that makes the usage of Minor more common in this case, or ... ? TAnthony 06:20, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Whether Minor or Younger, she has stolen things from me and I need them back--DitsyDaisy 11:37, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed with User:TAnthony, it should be "Octavia the Younger", not "Octavia Minor". In addition to TAnthony's Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) argument, there is also Wikipedia:Use common names, and "Octavia the Younger" is far more common than "Octavia Minor" according to Google (98,400 vs. 27,300 hits as of this writing). I have thus moved the article accordingly. —Lowellian (reply) 23:27, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Portrait[edit]

The portrait on the page for Octavia Minor, is actually a portrait of Livia Drusilla, wife of Emperor Augustus. It should be changed and in its place a pic of Octavia minor displayed. Link to Octavia Minor's portrait here: http://www.indiana.edu/~c414rome/net_id/museiromani/octavia2.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wehemesut (talk • contribs) 13:06, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're right! I noticed it too. Strange that it's been up so long. H0n0r (talk) 14:24, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Other children[edit]

I read somewhere that after the death of Cleopatra VII, she adopted Cleopatra's children by Mark Antony. Shouldn't this be included? --203.171.84.102 (talk) 04:13, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is, here. — TAnthony^Talk 06:21, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fiction[edit]

Regarding this edit to which I object, Octavia's representation in notable fictional works in which she has a significant presence is not trivia. Trivia would be mentioning her as a guest character on Dr. Who or noting a song or comic book character named after her.— TAnthony^Talk 01:20, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, and I have restored the section. —Lowellian (reply) 16:46, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Death date[edit]

The death section of the article has it as 10 BC, whereas the infobox says 11 BC. 73.49.233.247 (talk) 20:40, 18 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Names of daughters[edit]

Is it known why Octavia the Younger named her four daughters with just two names (two Claudias and two Antonias)? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 16:46, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Gotta love Roman naming conventions. A child would usually be named after their father's family with very little room for deviation (it's honestly like George Foreman naming all his sons George Foreman).

So her two daughters by G Claudius Marcellus were both Claudia Marcella (probably called by nicknames at home, but historians never really recorded things like that for women -- a lot of fiction and popular history of the period calls the elder girl Marcella instead of Claudia to differentiate). Then the Antonias are her daughters by Marcus Antonius (Marc Antony). It sometimes makes it hard to tell who historians are talking about, sometimes to the point where there's debate about how many children people actually had or whether person x is actually person x or their son/grandson/adopted son, but it's what they left us to work with. Hope this helps :) 2603:6010:9500:6330:E502:1D12:8520:F59A (talk) 15:27, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]