Pompeia [61225]

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Pompeia (flourished 2nd century BC & 1st century BC) was a Roman woman. Pompeia was born and raised into a noble family in Picenum (modern Marche & Abruzzo ) a rural district in Northern Italy , off the Adriatic Coast.
Pompeia's mother was a woman called Lucilia. Lucilia's family originated from Suessa Aurunca (modern Sessa Aurunca ) and she was a sister of satire poet Gaius Lucilius . Lucilius was a friend of Roman general Scipio Aemilianus Africanus .
Her paternal grandfather was Gnaeus Pompeius, while her father was Sextus Pompeius. Pompeia had two elder brothers Sextus Pompeius and Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo . Through Strabo, she was a paternal aunt to triumvir Pompey and his sister Pompeia .
Pompeia married Marcus Atius Balbus (148 BC-87 BC), a senator of plebs status from Aricia (modern Ariccia). Pompeia and Balbus had a son a younger Marcus Atius Balbus in 105 BC. Her son married Julia Caesaris Minor, the second eldest sister of dictator Gaius Julius Caesar . The younger Balbus and Julia had three daughters. Among Pompeia's descendants was the first Roman Emperor Augustus.

Pompeia married Marcus Atius Balbus [61224] [MRIN: 551617499]. (Marcus Atius Balbus [61224] was born in 148 B.C. and died in 0087 B.C..)