Agrippa's first wife. Agrippa was the right-hand man and trusted friend of Octavian (the future emperor Augustus). The two were childhood friends and had studied together in Apollonia, Illyria (modern Albania) before Julius Caesar had adopted Octavian. This made the match a very fortunate one for Attica. Cornelius Nepos states that it was Mark Antony who arranged the marriage for the couple. Nepos also notes that while Agrippa had the opportunity to marry into the nobility, he preferred to wed an equestrian. It is uncertain when the marriage took place and the betrothal may have been decided on as early as 42 BC. Ronald Syme held that the marriage likely took place around 37 BC. Attica's and Agrippa's daughter Vipsania Agrippina was born around 36 BC, she was engaged at only a year old to the future emperor Tiberius. It is possible that she and Agrippa had another daughter who was married to Quintus Haterius. Later life and death Around 28 BC Agrippa married for the second time to Octavian's niece Claudia Marcella Major, it is unknown what became of Attica, historians have speculated that she may have died before this or that Agrippa divorced her. Some historians have postulated that it is possible that Agrippa brought up the earlier incident of potential intimacy with her teacher Epirota from her youth as an excuse to divorce her if he wished to marry someone closer to Octavian. Gail Hamilton argued against this speculation, reasoning that Agrippa's closeness with Attica's father would make it unlikely that he would sacrifice his wife to slander. Luigi Cantarelli pointed out that Seutonius did not indicate that Attica was in any way to blame for Epirota's actions, which Reinhold observes is true. Reinhold as well noted that Agrippa was greatly attached to Atticus. Agrippa continued to support and elevate members of Attica's birth family the Pomponii in places like Butrint (where a statue of Attica may have stood) during Augustus reign. Cantarelli has argued that it is possible that Attica was no longer alive in 32 BC because she is not mentioned by Nepos among those called to her father's deathbed. E. Rapp believed that coins from Nemausus which depict Agrippa with a beard (a sign of public mourning in Roman culture) indicate that she died in 29 BC since the coin celebrates Agrippa's victory over Antony and Cleopatra which was in 30 BC. Reinhold agreed