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==Cultural depictions== [[File:Uc2.ark 13960 t8rb76g72-seq 369 (cropped Antonia).jpg|thumb|Likeness after a bust of Antonia on an engraved gem found at Stanwix, near Carlisle.]] She is remembered in ''[[De Mulieribus Claris]]'', a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by the [[Florence|Florentine]] author [[Giovanni Boccaccio]], composed in 1361{{endash}}62. It is notable as the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in Western literature.<ref name="Brown_xi">{{cite book |last=Boccaccio |first=Giovanni |authorlink=Giovanni Boccaccio |year=2003 |translator=Virginia Brown |title=Famous Women |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, MA |series=I Tatti Renaissance Library |volume=1 |isbn=0-674-01130-9 |page=xi}}</ref> Antonia is one of the main characters in the novel ''[[Claudius (novel)|I, Claudius]]''. In the 1976 [[I, Claudius (TV series)|television adaptation]] of the book she is portrayed by [[Margaret Tyzack]]. She is a loyal wife deeply in love with her husband Nero Claudius Drusus. However, she is unloving towards her son Claudius, whom she regards as a fool. Furthermore, after finding evidence that Livilla murdered her husband [[Drusus Julius Caesar]] and rightfully believing she was also poisoning her daughter for the same reason, she kills Livilla by locking her in her room until she starves to death. During the reign of Caligula she is so disgusted by the state of Rome that she commits suicide. She is a leading character in the novel by Lindsey Davis, ''The Course of Honour'' (1997), where she guides and advises Claudius and his supporters. In the 1968 [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] historical drama ''[[The Caesars (TV series)|The Caesars]]'', Antonia was indirectly mentioned by Tiberius (played by [[André Morell]]), who noted that Germanicus was a blood relative of Augustus on his mother's [Antonia] side. [[Colleen Dewhurst]] portrayed Antonia opposite [[Susan Sarandon]] as Livilla in the 1985 miniseries ''[[A.D. (miniseries)|A.D.]]'' Isabelle Connolly (adult) and Beau Gadsdon (child) portrayed Antonia in British-Italian historical drama television series ''[[Domina (TV series)|Domina]]'' (2021).
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