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]
Life edit
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,was executed on the orders of Commodus.[3][1][6]
References edit
- ^ a b c Monumenta Graeca et Romana: Mutilation and transformation : damnatio memoriae and Roman imperial portraiture. BRILL. 2004-01-01. ISBN 978-90-04-13577-2.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d e McHugh, John S. (2015-08-31). The Emperor Commodus: God and Gladiator. Casemate Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4738-7167-0.
- ^ a b Birley, Anthony R. (2002-06-01). Septimius Severus: The African Emperor. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-70746-1.
- ^ MacMullen, Ramsay (2019-02-19). Changes in the Roman Empire: Essays in the Ordinary. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-19805-7.
- ^ Rome, American Academy in (1917). Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Istituto Italiano d'arti grafiche. ISBN 978-1-879549-09-8.
Sources edit
- Anthony Birley, Septimius Severus: the African emperor, 2nd edition (1999)
- Albino Garzetti, From Tiberius to the Antonines: a history of the Roman Empire AD 14-192 (1974)
- Eric R. Varner, Mutilation and transformation: damnatio memoriae and Roman imperial portraiture, (2004)
- http://www.mjengh.com/femina_habilis_8457.htm