Editing Mark Antony (section)

==Marriages and issue==
[[File:1448 - Archaeological Museum, Athens - Octavia, ca. 30 BC - Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto, Nov 13 2009.jpg|thumb|Fragmentary [[Roman portraiture|portrait bust]] from [[Smyrna]] thought to depict Octavia, sister of Octavian and Antony's wife]]
[[File:Antiochia (forse), tetradracma di cleopatra VII e marcantonio, 36 ac ca.JPG|thumb|A [[tetradrachm]] of Marcus Antonius and [[Cleopatra VII]] of [[Ptolemaic Egypt]]]]
Antony had many mistresses (including [[Volumnia Cytheris|Cytheris]]) and was married in succession to Fadia, Antonia, Fulvia, Octavia and Cleopatra. He left a number of children.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Strong |first=Anise K. |title=Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World |date=July 2016 |isbn=978-1316563083 |pages=62–96 |language=en |chapter=Powerful concubines and influential courtesans |doi=10.1017/CBO9781316563083.004 |access-date=10 December 2019 |chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/prostitutes-and-matrons-in-the-roman-world/powerful-concubines-and-influential-courtesans/DCC15FC6A35D368295EB82C9EE2193C4/core-reader |archive-date=11 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511025641/https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/prostitutes-and-matrons-in-the-roman-world/powerful-concubines-and-influential-courtesans/DCC15FC6A35D368295EB82C9EE2193C4/core-reader |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gibbon |first=Edward |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pu8LAAAAYAAJ&q=mark+antony+concubines&pg=PA300 |title=The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |date=1854 |publisher=Little, Brown |language=en |access-date=16 November 2020 |archive-date=17 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417073259/https://books.google.com/books?id=pu8LAAAAYAAJ&q=mark+antony+concubines&pg=PA300 |url-status=live }}</ref> Through his daughters by Octavia, he would be ancestor to the [[Roman emperor]]s [[Caligula]], [[Claudius]] and [[Nero]].

# Marriage to Fadia, a daughter of a [[freedman]]. According to [[Cicero]], Fadia bore Antony several children. Nothing is known about Fadia or their children. Cicero is the only Roman source that mentions Antony's first wife.
# Marriage to first paternal cousin Antonia Hybrida Minor, daughter of [[Gaius Antonius Hybrida]]. According to [[Plutarch]], Antony threw her out of his house in Rome because she slept with his friend, the tribune [[Publius Cornelius Dolabella (consul 44 BC)|Publius Cornelius Dolabella]]. This occurred by 47 BC and Antony divorced her. By Antonia, he had a daughter:
#* [[Antonia (wife of Pythodoros)|Antonia]], married the wealthy Greek [[Pythodoros of Tralles]].
# Marriage to [[Fulvia]], by whom he had two sons:
#* [[Marcus Antonius Antyllus]], murdered by Octavian in 30 BC.
#* [[Iullus Antonius]], married [[Claudia Marcella the Elder]], daughter of Octavia.
# Marriage to [[Octavia the Younger]], sister of Octavian, later emperor [[Augustus]]; they had two daughters:
#* [[Antonia the Elder]] married [[Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 16 BC)]]; maternal grandmother of the Empress [[Valeria Messalina]] and paternal grandmother of the emperor [[Nero]].
#* [[Antonia the Younger]] married [[Nero Claudius Drusus]], the younger son of the Empress [[Livia Drusilla]] and brother of the emperor [[Tiberius]]; mother of the emperor [[Claudius]], paternal grandmother of the emperor [[Caligula]] and empress [[Agrippina the Younger]], and maternal great-grandmother of the emperor Nero.
# Children with the Queen [[Cleopatra VII]] of [[Egypt]], the former lover of Julius Caesar:
#* [[Alexander Helios]]
#* [[Cleopatra Selene II]], married King [[Juba II]] [[Numidia|of Numidia]] and later [[Mauretania]]; the queen of [[Syria]], [[Zenobia]] of [[Palmyra]], was reportedly descended from Selene and Juba II.
#* [[Ptolemy Philadelphus (son of Cleopatra)|Ptolemy Philadelphus]].