Editing Livia (section)

==Birth and first marriage to Tiberius Claudius Nero==
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Livia Drusilla was born on 30 January 59 BC as the daughter of [[Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus]] by his wife [[Alfidia]]. The diminutive ''Drusilla'' often found in her name suggests that she was not her father's first daughter.<ref name="ref1">For Livia's portraiture and representations, see: Rolf Winkes, ''Livia, Octavia, Iulia – Porträts und Darstellungen'', Archaeologia Transatlantica XIII, Louvain-la-Neuve and Providence, 1995.</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Roman Women: The Women who influenced the History of Rome|last=Chrystal|first=Paul|publisher=Fonthill Media|year=2017|chapter=5: Livia Drusilla (58 BC–AD 29)}}</ref> She may have had a brother named Gaius Livius Drusus who had two daughters named Livia Pulchra and Livilla.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Miscellanea Greca e Romana|last=Istituto italiana per la storia antica|publisher=University of Wisconsin - Madison|year=1968|location=Rome|pages=352–353|series=Studi pubblicati dall'Istituto italiano per la storia antica|volume=2–3}}</ref><ref>Pinsent, John (1976). ''Liverpool Classical Monthly. Vol. 1–2''. Indiana University. p. 2.</ref> Her father also adopted [[Marcus Livius Drusus Libo]].

She was married around 43 BC<ref>Livia, First Lady of Imperial Rome by [[Anthony A. Barrett]], Yale University Press.</ref> to [[Tiberius Claudius Nero (father of Tiberius Caesar)|Tiberius Claudius Nero]], her cousin of [[Patrician (ancient Rome)|patrician]] status who was fighting with her father on the side of [[Julius Caesar]]'s assassins against Octavian. Her father committed suicide in the [[Battle of Philippi]], along with [[Gaius Cassius Longinus]] and [[Marcus Junius Brutus]], but her husband continued fighting against Octavian, now on behalf of [[Mark Antony]] and his brother [[Lucius Antonius (brother of Mark Antony)|Lucius Antonius]]. Her first child, the future emperor [[Tiberius]], was born in 42 BC. In 40 BC, the family was forced to flee Italy in order to avoid the recriminations of Octavian in the aftermath of the [[Perusine War|siege of Perusia]]. They joined with [[Sextus Pompey|Sextus Pompeius]], a son of [[Pompey|Pompey Magnus]], who opposed the [[Second Triumvirate]] from his base in [[Sicilia (Roman province)|Sicily]]. Later, Livia, her husband Tiberius Nero and their two-year-old son, Tiberius, moved on to [[Greece in the Roman era|Greece]].<ref name="Fraschetti">{{Cite book|last=Fraschetti|first=Augusto|title=Roman Women|publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]|year=2001|isbn=9780226260945|editor-last=Fraschetti|editor-first=Fraschetti|location=Chicago & London|pages=100–102|translator-last=Lappin|translator-first=Linda|chapter=Livia the Politician|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cYnDNcxd6QwC&pg=100}}</ref>