Editing Julio-Claudian dynasty (section)

===Survival after the fall of Nero===
The lineage of Augustus endured into the era of the [[Nerva–Antonine dynasty|Nerva-Antonine dynasty]], the house that succeeded the [[Flavian dynasty|Flavians]]. Augustus' bloodline outlived his dynasty through the descendants of his first granddaughter, [[Julia the Younger]], who married [[Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 1)|Lucius Aemilius Paullus]] and gave birth to [[Aemilia Lepida (fiancee of Claudius)|Aemilia Lepida]].<ref>Suetonius, ''The Twelve Caesars'', "II. Augustus", LXXII</ref> After marrying [[Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus (consul 19)|Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus]], Aemilia gave birth to several children, including [[Junia Calvina]] and [[Junia Lepida]]. Although Calvina died childless, she was married to [[Lucius Vitellius the Younger|Lucius Vitellius]], whose elder brother was the short-lived emperor [[Vitellius]]. Her younger sister, Junia Lepida, married [[Gaius Cassius Longinus (husband of Junia Lepida)|Gaius Cassius Longinus]]<ref>Barrett, Anthony, ''Caligula: The Corruption of Power'' (Touchstone, 1989), pp. viii–ix.</ref> and produced a daughter called Cassia Longina. The Roman general [[Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo]] married Cassia, who provided him with two daughters, including [[Domitia Longina]], later wife of the emperor [[Domitian]].<ref name=levick-200>Levick (2002), p. 200</ref> By her first husband, [[Lucius Aelius Lamia Plautius Aelianus]], Domitia Longina may have been the mother or maternal grandmother of [[Lucius Fundanius Lamia Aelianus]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Settipani |first=Christian |title=Continuité gentilice et continuité familiale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale: mythe et réalité |publisher=Unit for Prosopographical Research, Linacre College, University of Oxford |year=2000 |isbn=978-1900934022 |pages=596}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Birley |first=Anthony R |title=Marcus Aurelius: A Biography |publisher=Routledge |year=2012 |isbn=978-1134695690 |edition=reworked |pages=}}</ref> Fundanius married Rupilia, sister of [[Rupilia Faustina]], and had a son, [[Lucius Plautius Lamia Silvanus]], consul in AD 145, as well as a daughter, Fundania, married to [[Marcus Annius Libo]], consul in AD 128. Fundania's offspring included [[Marcus Annius Libo (consul 161)|Marcus Annius Libo]], suffect consul in AD 161, and [[Annia Fundania Faustina]] (d. AD 192), wife of [[Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio]].<ref>[[Anthony Birley]], ''Marcus Aurelius, a Biography'', revised edition (London: Routledge, 1987), p. 32</ref> Faustina and both of her children, Titus Fundanius Vitrasius Pollio (d. AD 182) and [[Vitrasia Faustina]], were executed by [[Commodus]] on the charge of conspiracy.

In addition to Cassia Longina, Junia Lepida gave birth to a son called [[Cassius Lepidus]]. Around AD 80 Lepidus had a daughter named [[Cassia Lepida]], who married [[Gaius Julius Alexander Berenicianus]], a descendant of [[Herod the Great]], [[Ptolemy VI Philometor]] and [[Antiochus VIII Grypus|Antiochus VIII Gryphus]]. [[Julia Cassia Alexandria]], Lepida's daughter by Berenicianus, married [[Gaius Avidius Heliodorus]] and ultimately gave birth to [[Avidius Cassius|Gaius Avidius Cassius]].{{sfn|Smith|1870|p=626}}{{sfn|Astarita|1983|p=27}} Avidius Cassius had three children with his wife (named either [[Volusia Vettia]] or [[Volusia Maeciana]]);{{sfn|Astarita|1983|p=27}} they were [[Avidius Heliodorus]], [[Avidius Maecianus]] and [[Avidia Alexandra]].{{sfn|Birley|2001|p=191}}  In AD 175 Cassius was proclaimed emperor after he received erroneous news of the death of [[Marcus Aurelius]],{{sfn|Birley|2001|p=184}} whose survival made Cassius a [[Roman usurper|usurper]] of the empire.{{sfn|Birley|2001|p=185}} Cassius' rebellion ended three months into his bid for the throne when one of his [[centurion]]s assassinated him in favour of Marcus Aurelius.{{sfn|Smith|1870|p=441}} Cassius' daughter, Avidia, is known to have had four children with her husband, [[Titius Claudius Dryantianus Antonius]]: the [[Roman Senate|senator]] Claudius Cassius Aggripinus, Claudia Maeciana Alexandra, Claudia Vettia Agrippina, and Claudia Dryantilla Platonis, one of the women who took part in the ''[[ludi saeculares]]'' of the year AD 204.<ref>Jameson, Shelagh (1966). "Two Lycian Families". ''Anatolian Studies''. '''16''': 125–137 [[Doi (identifier)|doi]]:[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/anatolian-studies/article/abs/two-lycian-families/816CEFFDEE722539635AF3C4CDCD4678 10.2307/3642481] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719014242/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/anatolian-studies/article/abs/two-lycian-families/816CEFFDEE722539635AF3C4CDCD4678 |date=2023-07-19 }} {{JSTOR|3642481]
}} {{Cite web |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3642481 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2023-07-19 |archive-date=2023-07-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230713165651/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3642481 |url-status=bot: unknown }} [[S2CID (identifier)|S2CID]] [https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Two-Lycian-Families-Jameson/f50f6d706f5cd1b6f02b6b4230c91502e7966c9e 161893470] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719014234/https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Two-Lycian-Families-Jameson/f50f6d706f5cd1b6f02b6b4230c91502e7966c9e |date=2023-07-19 }}</ref>

Tiberius' lineage may have survived into the [[2nd century]] through the offspring of his granddaughter [[Julia Livia]], wife of [[Gaius Rubellius Blandus]]. Apart from a son, [[Rubellius Plautus]], executed by Nero in AD 62, Julia had a daughter or step-daughter, [[Rubellia Bassa]], who married a maternal uncle of the future Roman Emperor [[Nerva]] by the name of [[Gaius Octavius Laenas]]. Together Laenas and Bassa had at least one child, a surmised son, who was the grandfather of [[Sergius Octavius Laenas Pontianus]], consul in AD 131.<ref name=":02">{{Cite journal |last=Syme |first=Ronald |date=Spring 1982 |title=The Marriage of Rubellius Blandus |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/293964 |journal=The American Journal of Philology |volume=103 |issue=1 |pages=62–85 |doi=10.2307/293964 |jstor=293964  |access-date=2023-07-19 |archive-date=2023-07-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230717220024/https://www.jstor.org/stable/293964 |url-status=live }}</ref> 
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