Octavia
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Octavia was the name of three women, two of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of ancient Rome:
- Octavia Major, or Octavia Thurina Major, elder half sister of Octavia Minor
- Octavia Minor, or Octavia Thurina Minor, the full sister of Caesar Augustus, younger half sister of Octavia Major
- Claudia Octavia, the daughter of Claudius and first wife of Nero
Also the title of
- Octavia (play, by Seneca), dramatising Claudia Octavia's messy divorce
- Octavia by Reinhard Keiser
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