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Octavia, the fourth wife

by Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti

Keeping in account the so-called marriage with poor Fadia, Octavia was Anthony fourth wife. The young woman was Octavian’s elder sister and was six year older than him. In 54 B.C. when she was only fifteen years old she was married with C.Claudius Marcellus who had twenty years more than her. He was ... more


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BIOGRAPHY

 

ESPR In 1968, when she was already 46 year old, Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti, an architect who in 1946 graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the Roman University “the Sapienza, discovered a group of maritime villas built on a a series of promontory of the Lybian coast and dating from the II cent. She surveyed, studied and then published them in the “Atti della Pontificia Romana Accademia di Archeologia” and with this she began her work in the archaeological field... read more