Vitrasia Faustina
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
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]
References
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Sources
- 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