Who is octavia

Gaius Claudius Marcellus? Death: Octavia died of natural causes in 11 BCE. Octavia played a major role in the power struggles of the 1st century BCE. As a result, she was granted several rights and privileges that were normally reserved for Roman men. Along with the rest of Clarke's friends, Octavia chooses to return to human form in order to live out life on Earth alongside her new boyfriend Levitt , so that Clarke will not be alone forever.

Young Bellamy keeping newborn Octavia quiet. Aurora Blake , her mother, was forced to keep her second pregnancy a secret because of the one child law on The Ark. A young Bellamy watched his mother give birth to his sister and even helped keep her quiet afterward. After the child was born, Aurora told Bellamy to name her. He had learned about the Roman emperor, Augustus , and named his sister after the emperor's sister, Octavia.

Aurora told Bellamy that Octavia was his responsibility. He told her he loves her very much and promises to keep her safe, no matter what may happen. Because Octavia was an illegal second child, she had to be kept hidden in their quarters, never venturing out. Bellamy would tell her stories and play with her, telling her about the Ark. Their mother would also read them mythology, which Octavia loved. Octavia would also help Aurora, who was a seamstress on the Ark. In order to find out about the surprise inspections ahead of time, Aurora was sleeping with an Ark Guard and she was also trying to get Bellamy a position on the guard.

During these inspections, Octavia was forced to hide under the floorboards and wait quietly until they were done. Bellamy told her to tell herself, "I am not afraid. Octavia was finally exposed a year before they were sent to earth. Bellamy had become an Ark Guard Cadet and was able to get duty during the Unity Day masquerade party. He sneaks Octavia out of their room for the first time in her life so she could attend and promises her that he'll keep her safe and deliver her home before their mother even knows they're gone.

The party is disrupted by a solar flare alert, requiring everyone to show ID. Since Octavia didn't have any ID, they knew they would be caught. Bellamy tells her to go straight back to their room and hide while he creates a distraction, sacrificing himself, but Octavia doesn't know how to get back to their room. Commander Shumway notices that Bellamy has his shock baton out and starts to question them. Bellamy begs Commander Shumway to let her go, but he refuses stating Bellamy is not a guardsman yet.

Octavia tries to run but is easily captured. Octavia is locked up, and Bellamy loses his sister, his mother, and his chance to be an Ark guard and becomes a janitor. Over the next year, Bellamy is unable to see Octavia in Lockup.

He is then approached by Commander Shumway who tells Bellamy that prisoners are being sent to the ground , among them his sister.

He offers Bellamy the chance to go to Earth and protect Octavia but only if he shoots and kills the Chancellor. Bellamy accepts the deal and stows away on the dropship. In Pilot , Octavia is sent down to Earth with the other delinquents. When the spaceship lands she is reunited with her brother, Bellamy. Because she is the only one with a sibling, the delinquents realize that she is the illegal second child who used to hide under the floor.

She doesn't take the comments well so Bellamy tells her she should give them something else to remember her by: she should be remembered as the first person to walk back on Earth.

When asked about why she was arrested she responds, "for being born. Jasper helps save her and they stop for the night. The next morning, Octavia watches Jasper swinging on a vine to cross the river to Mount Weather before he is pierced in the chest by a spear.

In Earth Kills , Octavia remains at the camp and watches over Jasper as he recovers from his wounds. She gets in a fight with Bellamy when she finds out that he has scared Atom off from being with her anymore. When Murphy tries to silence Jasper by killing him,Octavia and Monty block him from getting to Jasper. When she hears of Atom's death, she confronts her brother and yells at him for his behaviour.

In Murphy's Law , Octavia tries to take Jasper out into the forest as he had fully recovered from his wounds but John Mbege grabs her from behind, frightening Jasper who trips and inadvertently discovers Wells' amputated fingers and a knife with the initials "J. Charlotte , however, is revealed to be the true murderer and Murphy decides she needs to be punished like he was hanged. Jasper tries to stop him but gets punched and Octavia shows concern for him.

Later, when Jasper attempts to put the finishing touches on setting up the communication between the Ark and the drop ship, it fails and wipes out all the wristbands. Jasper laments that he is cursed.

Octavia tells him he is not cursed but brave and kisses him. In Twilight's Last Gleaming , Octavia watches the Mir-3 escape pod crash to earth with the other delinquents and Bellamy tells her that they will search for it in the morning. Bellamy instead goes out searching for it in the night and Octavia follows him, eventually confronting him about his lies.

Bellamy reveals that the reason he wants to find the ship is because he shot Chancellor Jaha in order to get on the drop ship with Octavia. Octavia is furious with him for this and storms off. While heading back to camp she trips down a hill and is knocked unconscious.

Later, when she awakens, she discovers a Grounder watching her. He enters the room she's being held in and seals her leg wound shut. After the Grounder exits the room, Octavia proceeds to crawl out of the cave through a small opening and manages to run away, heading back to camp.

She is quickly recaptured by the same Grounder, however, and is held captive while she watches Roma die at the hands of the Grounder traps and realizes the Grounder had saved her life. As he carries Octavia back to his cave, she pleads with him to save her brother. When they get back to the cave, he chains her up and leaves her again.

Octavia "freaks out" about being chained up and when the Grounder returns, she hits him over the head, knocking him out. As she's scrambling to free herself, Bellamy , Jasper , Zoe Monroe , and Finn discover her location and help free her. Bellamy wants to kill the Grounder, but Octavia tells him that the Grounder had saved her life. Finn reaches for the Grounder's horn that had saved them from the acid fog but the Grounder awakens and stabs Finn. He pins Bellamy down and Octavia begs him not to kill Bellamy right before Jasper knocks him out.

Bellamy then hugs Octavia and gets the others to carry Finn back to camp. Once back at camp, Octavia tries to leave again but Bellamy prevents her and they get into another massive fight.

In Day Trip , Octavia is waiting to see the Grounder and Bellamy tells her she doesn't get to see him. Bellamy then leaves on a mission with Clarke. When Connor tells Nathan Miller that he needs to speak with Roma 's parents, Octavia enters the room where the grounder is locked up and closes the hatch.

Octavia mentions how Bellamy can be a dick sometimes and he smiles in agreement. She introduces herself and talks to him and he reveals his name to be Lincoln , asking her to remember him when he is dead. Miller returns and threatens to beat the grounder if Octavia doesn't leave so she does.

Later on, Jasper runs up to her, hallucinating on jobi nuts. Octavia gets the idea to give jobi nuts to the delinquents , including Miller. Once everyone else is incapacitated, Octavia steals some clothes and sneaks back up to see Lincoln.

She unties him and helps him get dressed. As he's about to leave, he turns around and kisses her passionately before escaping from the dropship. Soon after, Bellamy returns from his trip with Clarke and asks Octavia about Lincoln escaping.

She replies by lying, saying she had nothing to do with it. After following some white flowers, Octavia tries to sneak up on Lincoln in his cave, at first looking like she's going to kill him, but he has actually been training her to be a "warrior.

Finn shows up while they are saying goodbye and strikes up a deal for their leaders to meet to discuss peace. Lincoln brings his leader Anya and Finn brings Clarke but unknowingly to Finn, Lincoln, and Octavia, both leaders brought back-up. When things don't go as planned, Lincoln is hit by an arrow calling it a "scratch" while trying to protect Octavia. Lincoln tells them to get back to their drop ship and takes off the other way.

Back at camp, Octavia blames Jasper for ruining everything, and she walks away, angry. Octavia warns Del that they have too much wood but he decides to ignore her warning. As a result, the Smokehouse ends up burning down. In We Are Grounders Part 1 , she tells Bellamy that he is scaring people as he yells at one of the Delinquents for dozing off on their watch. When Jasper is taken hostage by Murphy , she challenges Bellamy to do something about it, which he was already doing when he sent Raven under the drop ship to figure out a way to open the door.

After Bellamy trades places with Jasper, Octavia stays on the radio with Bellamy the whole time he and Murphy are locked in the drop ship together. After Bellamy is hanged by Murphy, she comforts him and encourages him to breathe. She witnesses Murphy's escape and Bellamy's motivational speech. When Clarke and Finn return after Lincoln helped them escape from the Grounders and the Reapers , Finn hands her Lincoln's sword, shaking his head to show that he didn't think Lincoln had escaped the Reapers.

In The 48 , Octavia practices Lincoln's native language as Lincoln gathers ingredients from a river to treat the arrow wound in her leg. Octavia asks why she needs to learn the language and Lincoln explains to Octavia that only the Grounder warriors speak English and in order to blend in she needs to speak his native language.

Octavia tells Lincoln to stop stalling and pull out the arrow, which he immediately does. He then cauterizes the wound and tastes the arrow tip, spitting when he realizes it was poisoned.

Octavia tries to convince Lincoln not to go back to his village because if he does, he'll die the death of a thousand cuts and then be fed to the bugs. Lincoln comes up with a plan to use the beetles in the river as an antidote and leaves to collect the bugs. While Lincoln is away, Octavia begins screaming.

When Lincoln returns, Octavia tells him she saw a man who was more monster than man. Lincoln thinks she is hallucinating from the poison and they're running out of time. He picks her up and carries her away from the river. As they walk through the forest, Lincoln asks her to repeat the phrase he told her earlier in his native language.

Octavia does so but grows fearful when she can't smell anything. Later, Octavia learns that Lincoln lied to her and took her to his village instead of taking her to the ocean. He promises to come back and leaves her alone near the statue of Abraham Lincoln.

In Inclement Weather , Octavia awakens near the same statue. She sees a man a few feet away from her. He approaches her and hands her a concoction. When she asks about Lincoln , he says she needs to drink it. She asks the name of the man Nyko and is confused when he tells her she should run. Nyko tells her that Lincoln is paying for what he did for helping her while their clan is weak.

She then says they have to do something but he says he did something by helping her and that she should run. After that she hits him and takes him as a hostage to Lincoln's village. She demands of the leader Indra an exchange for their healer, Nyko: she wants Lincoln.

She tells the leader to bring Lincoln to the place she last saw him then threatens to kill her hostage if anyone else comes along. She says they have until dark. When dusk arrives, Octavia successfully swaps Nyko for Lincoln. As Lincoln is returned to her, they are ambushed by Reapers and both Lincoln and Nyko are taken away. When Indra orders her death, Octavia runs from the Grounders and hides. Later, Octavia continues to follow Indra and her group as they search for Nyko and Lincoln.

When Indra reveals that Octavia will be the bait for the Reapers she announces that she is not afraid. Octavia helps Indra and the other Grounders fight off the Reapers and at one point, Artigas saves her life. When Indra is defenseless, Octavia saves her by killing the Reaper who would have killed Indra. Once the Reapers are taken care of, Octavia discovers from Nyko that Lincoln is not among the freed Grounders. When she doesn't find him she screams out in anguish. She is reunited with Bellamy Blake and helps treat Monroe's arrow wound.

Bellamy offers his sympathy when he learns that Lincoln didn't make it to safety. Octavia goes with her brother, Monroe, and Mel back to Camp Jaha while Finn and Murphy continue looking for Clarke and the rest of the missing delinquents. In Human Trials , she witnesses Clarke hugging Bellamy when they make it back to camp, remarking she never thought she would see that.

Clarke gives Octavia a hug, too. Octavia begins to lead the way to the Lincoln's village to bring back Murphy and Finn. Once night comes, they make camp in the woods and sleep. Octavia makes Clarke and Bellamy include Lincoln in their mission to rescue the remaining Delinquents from Mount Weather. She then insists they keep moving. Once at the Abraham Lincoln Memorial statue near the Grounder village , Bellamy comforts Octavia as she cries in his arms because she couldn't save Lincoln.

They hear gunshots going off and the trio show up in time to see Finn massacring the grounders. Octavia immediately rushes over to Artigas' lifeless body. She is saddened by his death as he had once saved her life from Reapers.

They sneak off from the group in order to search on their own for Lincoln. Their absence is soon noticed and some Ark guards are sent after them.

Acid Fog descends upon everyone and Octavia follows the fleeing critters to a sealed door. They get the door open and make it into a long-forgotten parking garage, rescuing two of the three the Ark guards who had followed them one was swallowed up by the fog.

They split up from the guards with Sgt. Scott giving Bellamy a gun. They soon hear the guards screaming and run to them only to see Reapers devouring them.

Bellamy kills the two Reapers and then they spot another one kneeling over Sgt. Octavia recognizes it's Lincoln and calls out to him. He turns and starts to attack her and she shoots him in the leg. Bellamy and Octavia escape and plan a way to lure Lincoln back out so they can capture him. Octavia acts as bait and Bellamy uses the Ark guard's stun stick to knock Lincoln out. He tells Octavia that they will take Lincoln home. In Long Into an Abyss , Octavia is sitting in the drop ship room where Lincoln is once again chained to the walls while Clarke and Bellamy are discussing what the Mountain Men are doing to the Sky People and the Grounders.

Lincoln manages to break free and attacks them. Octavia hits Lincoln over the head, knocking him unconscious. They get him chained back up and Octavia tries to give him some water but Lincoln thrashes at her, upsetting her.

She leaves the drop ship to get some more water and spots a white flower in a tree, the same signal Lincoln had used with her in the past. Nyko appears and tells Octavia that the Commander will arrive soon and if they don't leave they will all die. When Nyko hears screams coming from the drop ship, he asks what it is and Octavia tells him it's Lincoln. Nyko immediately understands what she means: that Lincoln has become a Reaper. When Nyko comes in to see Lincoln, he spots Finn and wants to kill him for the massacre he caused earlier in Tondc.

When Bellamy attempts to shoot Nyko, Octavia tries to stop him but Clarke shocks Nyko with an Ark guard's stun stick, knocking him out. Later, when Abby is unable to resuscitate Lincoln, Octavia refuses to believe it and continues CPR until she finally gives up, thinking Lincoln is dead for good. Moments later, Abby comes up with the idea to use the shock-baton as a defibrillator and brings Lincoln back to life.

Octavia kisses him, happy to see that he is alive. She's trying to keep him comfortable by fluffing his pillows. Clarke visits with Abigail Griffin and they ask Lincoln how to negotiate with Lexa in order to save Finn but he says there is no way out of it and Finn must die.

Octavia asks what would happen to him and Lincoln tells them that because Finn killed 18, he will suffer the pain of 18 deaths as a result. Clarke asks how he can say that about his friend and Lincoln tells Clarke that some of the dead Finn had massacred were Lincoln's friends, too. Later, Marcus Kane and Abby are talking with Octavia and Lincoln again and ask if Lexa would be willing to accept a deal where the Sky People put Finn on trial instead.

Lincoln tells them it's not possible because Finn killed innocent people and they're already lucky because if it were up to Indra , all of the Sky People would be dead. Abby decides she needs to speak with Indra. In Remember Me , Octavia wants to talk to Lincoln but Lincoln doesn't want to talk about being a Reaper she tells him he's not that monster and they kiss. Later, Octavia is seen with Lincoln in Tondc , standing with the others while Finn's body along with the other 18 Grounder bodies are lit on fire.

Soon after that, when Gustus is poisoned at the peace dinner and Raven is blamed for it, Octavia asks Lincoln to talk to Indra to intervene on their behalf so they won't kill Raven.

Indra tells Lincoln that he is one of the Sky People now in disdain. Later, Lincoln decides to help Bellamy get through the tunnels to Mount Weather in order to face what he had done as a Reaper. Octavia wants to join but Lincoln tells her that she needs to stay behind to make sure the Grounder-Sky People alliance doesn't fail since she has knowledge of both worlds now.

She attempts to get Indra to let her train with the grounders, but Indra refuses. Later, as the Grounders are about to leave Camp Jaha, Octavia picks a fight with one of the Grounders so she can get trained with them like she wanted to. The Grounder, Fio, beats her up pretty severely, but Octavia continues to stand up again and again until Indra calls it off.

As Octavia is recuperating from the fight, Indra appears and tells her that she fought like a child but Indra is willing to train her and take her on as her Second. Octavia agrees. After Indra and the grounders bring back food for the people of Camp Jaha, Kane acknowledges that it was Octavia who brought the Grounders and the Sky People together.

Fio, the man whom she had sparred with earlier, brings her a plate of food. Kane asks her to "look out for [her] people," to which Octavia ambiguously replies that she is. Later, she tells Clarke that she is worried about Lincoln because he should be back from the mines by now. Clarke calms her by telling her that Bellamy and Lincoln are going to be all right.

Soon after that, Octavia, along with Clarke and Indra , get the prisoner out of the airlock so he can deliver to Mount Weather a message from Clarke. After he takes off, Octavia asks Clarke how this is going to help Clarke and Bellamy tells her she wants Mount Weather to look at the army outside so they won't discover Bellamy inside. Octavia then walks away with Clarke and Indra. In Rubicon , Octavia is seen in Tondc with Indra telling her that she is worried about Lincoln not being back yet.

Indra answers that Lincoln is no longer her concern and that she can worry about him when the battle is finished. Octavia is then put on watch with another Grounder, Atohl of the Ice Nation.

When they hear a noise, Atohl goes to investigate and soon after Octavia hears him scream. She follows after him and finds Lincoln standing over Atohl, tying him up to take back to Mount Weather in exchange for more of the Reaper drug. She tells Lincoln to get off him and to come with her. Refusing to answer Octavia, Lincoln receives a punch in the face and Octavia quotes something he had said to her a while ago: "Ge smak daun, gyon op nodotaim.

We fight," with the ultimatum that he can either get back up and fight what the Mountain Men did to him or he can "crawl away and die alone like a coward. In Resurrection , after they're pinned down from rescuing people by a sniper, Lincoln decides to go after the shooter. He tells Octavia that she needs to remain with Nyko and help him since Indra was shot by the sniper. Indra tells Octavia that because she's the Chief's Second, she must make the other Seconds follow her.

Atohl and Caris , the other Seconds, tell Octavia that they can't do anything until Lincoln takes out the sniper. Octavia comes up with a plan to block the sniper's line-of-sight so they can get to the wreckage where Abby and Kane are trapped and the other Seconds follow her and they start to dig out the survivors.

She is overjoyed to see Lincoln return alive after taking out the shooter and looks on with pride when Indra finally welcomes Lincoln back into their clan.

In Bodyguard of Lies , she tells Clarke that she figured out that Clarke knew about the missile and is disappointed in her for letting all those people die and thinking she was going to let her die too. When Lexa tells the guard to kill Octavia, Clarke is able to stop the guard in time.

Later, Clarke tells Octavia she wants to take her out of the mines and put her at the back of the battle so she won't get hurt but Octavia says no, stating she only listens to Indra and then ends their friendship by telling Clarke she only fights this war with her because she wants their friends back. Octavia and Indra discuss the Tondc bombing and she doesn't understand why Indra isn't mad at Clarke and Lexa for letting all those Grounders die.

Indra tells her it was the Mountain Men who were responsible for their deaths. They soon join in the battle cry with the Grounders around her. Later, Octavia thanks Indra for forgiving Lincoln. Octavia uses Lincoln's maps of the mines to find the way to the Mount Weather intake door. They eventually reach the door to Mount Weather and Indra tells her she's a Grounder now, much to Octavia's pleasure.

They soon they hear the horn sounding retreat and Indra commands Octavia to leave the mines with them. Caris asks Octavia to leave with them but Octavia tells them she is not leaving without Bellamy. Indra tells her she is no longer her Second and symbolically cuts her. Octavia tells him she has no home and Jackson leaves with the others while Octavia stays in the mines.

Clarke and Octavia get in a fight because Clarke is desperate to get into Mount Weather and will bring unwanted attention on them. Suddenly, the door opens and Bellamy appears with Monty , Jasper , and Maya. They split up with Bellamy, Clarke, and Monty going after Dante and Octavia going with Jasper and Maya to get her to Level 5 before she runs out of oxygen. They are soon interrupted by a kissing couple who run away and alert the Mount Weather guards.

Octavia chases after them and takes out two Mount Weather guards with her sword and newly learned grounder moves. Octavia and Maya are soon chased into the Mess Hall and are quickly surrounded by Mount Weather guards. Bellamy sees her predicament and irradiates Level 5 with Clarke in order to save her.

Octavia sits with Maya as she succumbs to the radiation until Jasper gets there. She then leaves to free the imprisoned Sky People. The next day, Octavia returns to Camp Jaha , holding hands with Lincoln.

In Wanheda Part 1 , three months after the events of Mount Weather , Bellamy is taking a group out on a mapping mission of Sector 7.

Octavia shows up on horseback and tells them to try to keep up. They leave through the gates of Arkadia and head out on their mapping mission. The rover eventually stops and Octavia rides up on her horse, asking why. Monty says they have received a signal coming from Sector 8, which is Ice Nation. Since Monty and Miller's boyfriend are both from Farm Station , Bellamy says Monty and Miller get to decide whether or not they go into Ice Nation territory and they both agree.

They reach the border to Sector 8 and Ice Nation territory. Octavia tells them the Ice Nation stretches for thousands of miles and the ice is farther to the north. Bellamy reminds them to use non-lethal force as the beacon signal draws nearer to them. Three Ice Nation warriors break through the tree line on horses, identified by their white war paint.

Octavia tells them they are Skaikru looking for their people. The Ice Nation warrior asks if they're looking for Wanheda. In 54, Julia died, the wife of Pompey and daughter of Julius Caesar. This broke the tie between the two powerful politicians. Caesar, who was in Gaul, wanted to continue the alliance and proposed to marry Octavia Minor to his political friend, but Marcius had already married his stepdaughter to Gaius Claudius Marcellus, a friend of Pompey.

The couple did not want a divorce. In 50, when civil war between Pompey and Caesar was about to break out, Claudius was consul. He was one of those who tried to obstruct Caesar's policy in these months, but when the conqueror of Gaul invaded Italy in January 49, Claudius switched sides. No doubt his twenty-year old wife made the volte-face possible: after all, the dictator was her great-uncle. After the assassination of Caesar in 44, the political situation became very complex.

Octavia's brother Octavian suddenly became commander of an army and fought against the leader of Caesar's faction, Mark Antony 43 ; when the young man had defeated the old war horse, they unexpectedly concluded an alliance with Lepidus: the Second Triumvirate , and announced a campaign against the murderers. Many people were proscribed 42 , and order was restored only after Mark Antony and Octavian had defeated Brutus and Cassius, two of the assassins, in the battle of Philippi.

It ran on their family. Now we do not have empires but super-powers that destroy whole nations. Great historical treatment. I'm taking a course on Women of Ancient Rome next year and look forward to learning about figures like Octavia.

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Badass Women of History--Octavia the Younger. Octavia's younger brother, Octavian, aka Emperor Caesar Augustus Octavia's First Marriage, and Her First Act of Defiance As a noblewoman, Octavia didn't have a whole lot of control over her life, as most of that was decided for her by others.

Octavia and Marcellus had two daughters and a son together. After this, most of Roman society was firmly on Octavia's side. At this point, Octavia was raising ten children, only five of whom were her own. Octavia the Goddess statue of Octavia When Octavia died in 11 BC, the funeral was a lavish, public one in which many famous and powerful political leaders participated and gave speeches, her brother the Emperor among them.

Among the many honors she received were: Coins minted with her face on them. She was only the second Roman woman to have this honor the first one being Antony's third wife, Fulvia.

The Gate of Octavia was built in her honor by her brother. The Porticus Octaviae was also built by her brother in her honor. Octavian had the Roman senate declare Octavia to be a goddess.

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