Antistia
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Pompey
Pompey's first wife, daughter of Antistius, later divorced by Pompey at Sulla's urging, an event that led to her family's tragedy.
This marriage was therefore characteristic of a tyranny, and befitted the needs of Sulla rather than the nature and habits of Pompey, Aemilia being given to him in marriage when she was with child by another man, and Antistia being driven away from him in dishonour, and in piteous plight too, since she had lately been deprived of her father because of her husband (for Antistius had been killed in …
But be it true or not, a few days afterwards Pompey married Antistia.
Tiberius and Caius Gracchus
Wife of Appius Claudius, whose surprised reply to the news of Claudia's betrothal forms a brief dialogue anecdote.
If thou hadst only found Tiberius Gracchus for betrothal to her!