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 historical drama 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. Notes References Sources Ancient Plutarch - Life of Mark Antony Suetonius - Caligula (Gaius) & Claudius Tacitus - Annals of Imperial Rome Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri iv.3.3 Secondary (edd.), Prosopographia Imperii Romani saeculi I, II et III, Berlin, 1933 - . (PIR2) 36 BC births 37 deaths 1st-century BC Roman women 1st-century BC Romans 1st-century Roman women Ancient Romans who committed suicide Antonii Augustae Children of Mark Antony Claudius Julio-Claudian dynasty Roman-era Athenian women