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AtiaJulia Caesaris and her husband, the praetor and commissioner Marcus Atius Balbus had 3 daughters. They were nieces to Julius Caesar and two of them were aunts to Caesar Augustus and Octavia. 1. Atia Balba Major - Mother of Quintus Pedius. In his great-uncle's will he received 1/8 of certain legacies. Pedius was a general, aedile in 54 BC, praetor in 48 BC, won a triumphed in 45bc and suffect consul in 43bc. He died after his consulship. Atia had a great-grandson, who was deaf. This Quintus Pedius was a painter, who lived between 1-13 AD, who Caesar Augustus loved. When he died Augustus issued a special coin series in his memory. How he died is uncertain. 2. Atia Balba Minor (85 BC-43 BC). Atia married the Macedonian governor and senator Gaius Octavius. Their children were Octavia Thurina Minor and Caesar Augustus. She had a stepdaughter Octavia Thurinia Major, a previous child of husband's first marriage. In 59 BC, her first husband died on his way to Rome, before he could stand for a consulship. Atia married the consul of 56 BC, Lucius Marcius Philippus. Philippus had a son of name same from a formal marriage and was a supporter of Julius Caesar. He loved raising his step-children and arranged Octavia's first marriage to the consul and senator Gaius Claudius Marcellus. Atia was a religious and caring matron. She had doubts of her son being her uncle's heir. She died during her son's first consulship in August/September 43 BC. Augustus gave her the highest posthumous honours at her funeral. 3. Atia Julia Balba (?) - Mother of Lucius Pinarius. Along with his cousins received 1/8 of certain legacies from Julius Caesar. Little is known of Pinarius.
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