Pompeia (sister of Pompeius Strabo)
Pompeia was a Roman woman. Pompeia was born and raised into a noble family in Picenum a rural district in Northern Italy, off the Adriatic Coast.
Pompeia’s mother was a woman called Lucilia. Lucilia’s family originated from Suessa Aurunca and she was a sister of satire poet Gaius Lucilius. Lucilius was a friend of Roman general Scipio Aemilianus Africanus.
Her paternal grandfather was Gnaeus Pompeius, while her father was Sextus Pompeius. Pompeia had two elder brothers Sextus Pompeius and Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo. Through Strabo, she was a paternal aunt to triumvir Pompey and his sister Pompeia.
Pompeia married Marcus Atius Balbus, a senator of plebs status from Aricia. Pompeia and Balbus had a son a younger Marcus Atius Balbus in 105 BC. Her son married Julia Minor, the younger of two sisters of dictator Gaius Julius Caesar. The younger Balbus and Julia had three daughters. Among Pompeia’s descendants was the first Roman Emperor Augustus.
