Junia Silana

[1] There are no sources detailing Silana's early life since the earliest records mentioned her name when she was already an adult and married to Gaius Silius.

[9] The pair was executed after the freedman Narcissus informed the emperor, who was at Ostia, of their lavish wedding and the plot to assassinate him.

[11] She was cited as one of the few personages who maintained contact with Agrippina as her son Emperor Nero sought to diminish her influence.

[13] The relationship, however, soured when Agrippina interfered after Silana, who was already old at this point, announced an impending marriage with the young Roman aristocrat, Sentius Africanus.

[11] It is said that Agrippina blocked the marriage to prevent the young noble from inheriting Silana's immense wealth.

She employed two of her agents, Iturius and Calvisius, to relay an allegation to Atimetus that Agrippina was behind the plot to kill her son.