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Octavia

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Octavia (ŏktā`vēə).

1 d. 11 B.C., Roman matron, sister of Emperor Augustus Augustus (ôgŭs`təs, əgŭs`–), 63 B.C.–A.D.
..... Click the link for more information.  and wife of Marc Antony Antony or Marc Antony, Lat. Marcus Antonius, c.83 B.C.–30 B.C., Roman politican and soldier. He was of a distinguished family; his mother was a relative of Julius Caesar .
..... Click the link for more information. , her second husband. For some years, she helped maintain peace between her brother and her husband. Antony fell in love with Cleopatra Cleopatra (klēəpă`trə, –pā`–, –pä`–), 69 B.C.–30 B.C.
..... Click the link for more information. , and after his war with Augustus began, he divorced (32 B.C.) Octavia. After his death, she reared his children by Fulvia (his first wife) and by Cleopatra, as well as her own.

2 d. A.D. 62, Roman matron, daughter of Emperor Claudius I and Messalina Messalina (Valeria Messalina) (mĕsəlī`nə), d. A.D. 48, Roman empress, wife of Claudius I .
..... Click the link for more information.  and wife of Nero Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar) (nēr`ō), A.D. 37–A.D. 68, Roman emperor (A.D. 54–A.D. 68).
..... Click the link for more information. , whom she married in A.D. 53. Nero deserted her for Poppaea and divorced her. She was falsely accused of adultery, banished to Pandateria, an island in the Bay of Naples, and put to death. She is the subject of Octavia, a unique contemporaneous tragedy, erroneously attributed to Seneca.



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As Black Issues Book Review looks forward to its ninth year, however, our thoughts are crowded with memories of those giants who departed this past year, each one having touched us in immeasurable ways--Gordon Parks, Octavia E.
Publisher's page by Smikle, Ken / Black Issues Book Review
Sometimes, they watch TV (as novelist Chris Abani does), or they read the newspaper (as novelist Octavia Butler did), and entire novels are born from those moments.
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Some of the authors of the short stories include Octavia Butler, Gwyneth Jones, Leslie Stone, Kate Wilhelm, Pamela Zoline, Lisa Tuttle, Pat Murphy, and James Tiptree Jr.
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