Vitrasia Faustina

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Vitrasia Faustina (died 182 or 183 CE) was a noble Roman woman who lived in the 2nd century during the Roman Empire. [1] [2] [3]

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Life

Vitrasia was the daughter of Annia Fundania Faustina and the Roman Senator Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio, consul II in 176. Her brother was Titus Fundanius Vitrasius Pollio. [3] Through her maternal grandfather, Marcus Annius Libo, consul in 128, she was a distant relative to the ruling Nerva–Antonine dynasty of the Roman Empire. [1] [4] Vitrasia was born and raised in Rome.

Through inheritances Vitrasia became a very wealthy heiress and had moved to Cales in Campania. [5] Due to her influence, status and connections, Vitrasia became a public benefactor and a prominent citizen of Cales. Through her wealth, Vitrasia paid for the construction or repair for the civic Temple of Magna Dea or the Great Mother. [3]

It is uncertain if Vitrasia had ever married or had children. [3] In 182 or 183, she may have been involved in one of numerous conspiracies against her unstable maternal second cousin the Roman Emperor Commodus (who ruled 180–192). [4] In 182, she was executed on the orders of Commodus. [3] [1] [6] [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Monumenta Graeca et Romana: Mutilation and transformation : damnatio memoriae and Roman imperial portraiture. BRILL. 2004-01-01. ISBN   978-90-04-13577-2.
  2. ↑ Levick, Barbara M. (2014-02-01). Faustina I and II: Imperial Women of the Golden Age. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-970217-6.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 McHugh, John S. (2015-08-31). The Emperor Commodus: God and Gladiator. Casemate Publishers. ISBN   978-1-4738-7167-0.
  4. 1 2 Birley, Anthony R. (2002-06-01). Septimius Severus: The African Emperor. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-134-70746-1.
  5. ↑ MacMullen, Ramsay (2019-02-19). Changes in the Roman Empire: Essays in the Ordinary. Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-0-691-19805-7.
  6. ↑ Rome, American Academy in (1917). Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Istituto Italiano d'arti grafiche. ISBN   978-1-879549-09-8.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  7. ↑ Dio, Cassius (1960). Dio's Roman History (9 ed.). London, England; Cambridge, Massachusetts: William Heinemann, Harvard University Press. p. 79.

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