roman matrons

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  • Period: 18 to 18

    AURELIA COTTA

    known as “Ideal Roman matron”
    lived from 120 to 54 BC
    Her family was influential, a highborn patrician one.
    also helped Caesar raise his daughter Julia. helped Caesar survive for long years on the throne.
    Young Julius was about to be executed at the age of 18 by the dictator Sulla. But Aurelia intervened, saving her son’s life.
    She is described as “Ideal Roman matron” Mother of Julius Caesar
  • Period: 18 to 18

    TULLIA

    last queen of Rome
    remembered as a "symbol of parricide worst crime in ancient RomeHer husband ruled for some time, but when the Roman monarchy was ended by Lucius Junius Brutus, she was exiled from Rome along with her husband and family.
    Tullia was also given a special role in history “the murder of her own father”.
  • Period: 18 to 18

    LUCILLA

    known as the woman who married her father’s co-ruler at the age of 14. After the death of Aurelius, Commodus became an emperor. She was one of the plotters to have him killed because of his disturbing actions. Her second husband was Marcus Aurelius, and she traveled with him during the Danube military campaign. Lucilla was banished from hometown Capri.
  • Period: 19 to 19

    CORNELIA

    second daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus corenila married Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus had 12 children with him.after the death of his husband 154.. she remained unmarried Cicero applauded her letters for the beauty of their style; the two fragments preserved in the manuscripts of Cornelius Nepos
  • Period: 19 to 19

    Fulvia

    Fulvia, (died 40 BC, Sicyon, Greece), in Roman history, the wife of Mark Antony, and a participant in the struggle for power following the death of Julius Caesar.The daringly ambitious, sometimes outrageous, Roman aristocrat, known to history as Fulvia, lived during the Late Roman Republic, a chaotic era lasting from 130 bce to 31 bce that was characterized by turmoil and strife.
  • Period: 19 to 19

    Julia Domna

    born 160 AD Died 217 AD Julia Domna was a Roman empress of Syrian origins, the second wife of Septimius Severus. She was born in Emesa in the Roman province of Syria, into a family of priests of the deity Elagabalus. As a powerful political figure and member of the imperial family, Julia received titles such as "mother of the army camps".
  • Period: 19 to 19

    LUCRETIA

    born January 3rd 1793 Nantucket, Massachusetts, died November 11 1180 near Abington, Pennsylvania), grew up in boston attended public schools for two years at the age of 13 she was sent to "friends" boarding school. she wanted women to have rights as men have. she wanted to be known and remembered Her last address was given to the Friends’ annual meeting in May 1880.
  • Period: 19 to 19

    HORTENSIA

    daughter of the roman orator also known for hehelp resist a foreign enemy but would never pay for civil wars.r speech against taxation raised money for the war against assassins of Julius Caesar by taxing the property of 1,400 rich women. she declared that women they reduced. the tax to 400 and imposed a similar levy on men.
  • Period: 19 to 19

    OCTAVIA

    Born: 69 BC, Nola, Italy Died: 11 BC, Rome, Italy sister of Octavian she was the daughter of Gaius Octavius she was married to Mark Antony, One of the most prominent women in Roman history, Octavia was respected and admired by contemporaries for her loyalty, nobility and humanity, and for maintaining traditional Roman feminine virtues.
  • Period: 19 to 19

    Livia Drusilla

    born January 30, 58 died AD 29 Her father was Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus, an adoptive son of the tribune of 91, Marcus Livius Drusus. she her cousin Tiberius Claudius Nero Livia’s power and ambition proved embarrassing to Tiberius after his accession Surviving portraiture confirms her reputation for dignified beauty.
  • Period: 19 to 19

    Aelia Pulcheria

    born January 19, 399 died February 18, 453 Saint Aelia Pulcheria was Regent of the Byzantine Empire during the minority of her brother Theodosius II, and empress by marriage to Marcian. She was the second child of Byzantine Emperor Arcadius and Empress Aelia Eudoxia.
  • Period: 19 to 19

    Theodora

    born 500 AD died june 28 548 AD Theodora was empress of the Eastern Roman Empire by marriage to Emperor Justinian I. She was one of the most influential and powerful of the Eastern Roman empresses, albeit from a humble background. Some sources mention her as empress regnant with Justinian I as her co-regent.
  • Period: 19 to 19

    Julia Soaemias

    Born 180 AD Died March 11, 222 AD Julia Soaemias Bassiana was a Syrian noblewoman and the mother of Roman emperor Elagabalus who ruled over the Roman Empire from 218 to 222. She was born and raised in Emesa, Syria and through her mother was related to the Royal family of Emesa, and through marriage, to the Severan dynasty of Ancient Rome.
  • Period: 19 to 19

    Julia Maesa

    Born 160 AD Died August 3, 224 AD Julia Maesa was a 3rd century Augusta of the Roman Empire and a powerful, prominent and influential figure in the empire's politics during the rule of the Severan dynasty.
  • Period: 19 to 19

    Livilla

    Born 13 BC Rome Italy Died 31 AD Claudia Livia Julia was the only daughter of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor and sister of the Roman Emperor Claudius and general Germanicus, and thus the paternal aunt of the emperor Caligula and maternal great-aunt of emperor Nero, as well as the niece and daughter-in-law of Tiberius.
  • Period: 19 to 19

    Helena

    Born 245 AD Helenopolis Bithynia Died Rome Italy Helena, or Saint Helena, was an Empress of the Roman Empire, and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great. Born the lowest of commoners, possibly in Drepana, Bithynia in Asia Minor, she became the consort of the future Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus and the mother of the future Emperor Constantine the Great
  • Period: 19 to 19

    Portia Catonis

    Born 70 BC Ancient Rome Died 42 BC Ancient Rome Porcia Catonis, also known simply as Portia, occasionally spelled "Portia" especially in 18th-century English literature, was a Roman woman who lived in the 1st century BC. She was the daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis and his first wife Atilia.
  • Period: 19 to 19

    Octavia the younger

    Born 69 BC Nola, Italy Died 11 BC Rome, Italy Octavia the Younger, also known as Octavia Minor or simply Octavia, was the elder sister of the first Roman Emperor, Augustus, the half-sister of Octavia the Elder, and the fourth wife of Mark Antony.
  • Period: 19 to 19

    Valeria Messalina

    Born 17 AD Rome, Italy Died 48 AD Gardens of Lucullus Valeria Messalina was the third wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius. She was a paternal cousin of the Emperor Nero, a second-cousin of the Emperor Caligula, and a great-grandniece of the Emperor Augustus.
  • Period: 19 to 19

    SULPICIA

    Sulpicia the only female poet from Ancient Rome. Sulpicia’s birth year is thought to have been around 40 BCE. Sulpicia’s father Servius Sulpicius Rufus and mother Valeria were well-off citizens with strong connections to Emperor Augustus as Valeria’s brother served as his commander. Her poems express an understanding of the Latin elegiac form that was mastered by her contemporaries, all of whom seem to have influenced the younger poet.
  • Period: 19 to 19

    Julia Agrippina

    Agrippina the Younger was destined to play a key role in Roman history from the moment of her birth. Her great-grandfather was Augustus, the man who had turned the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire with himself as the first emperor. She was the great-niece of the former emperor Tiberius, and her mother (Agrippina the Elder) was among the most respected women in Rome.
  • Period: 19 to 19

    Julia Mamaea

    born 180 AD died 235 AD Julia Avita Mamaea was a Syrian noble woman and a Roman regent of the Severan dynasty. She was the mother of Roman Emperor Alexander Severus and served as regent of Rome during his minority, de facto during his reign.