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Distinguished women of the Middle Republic

• Aemilia Paulla (3rd century BC-2nd century BC), wife of Scipio Africanus Major and mother of Cornelia Africana
  Cornelia Africana
  
  Cornelia Scipionis Africana was the second daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the hero of the Second Punic War, and Aemilia Paulla....
   (see below), noted for the unusual freedom given her by her husband, her enjoyment of luxuries, and her influence as role model for elite Roman women after the Second Punic War. Her date of birth, marriage, and death are all unknown (but then so are those for her illustrious husband whose birth and death dates are approximated!).
• Cornelia Africana
  Cornelia Africana
  
  Cornelia Scipionis Africana was the second daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the hero of the Second Punic War, and Aemilia Paulla....
   (2nd century BC), virtually deified by Roman women as a model of feminine virtues and Stoicism
  Stoicism
  
  Stoicism was a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early third century B.C. The stoics considered passionate emotions to be the result of errors in judgment, and that a Sage , or person of "moral and intellectual perfection," would not have such emotions....
  , but never officially deified. The first Roman woman, whose approximate birth year and whose year of death is known, thanks to a law she had passed to allow her granddaughter to inherit.
• Licinia
  Licinia
  
  Licinia is the name of women in the Licinius .It can also be a personal or first name for women. The name Licinia can also refer to the Lex Licinia Sextia, an important law passed in 367 BC and taking effect the following year....
  , the name of the women of the gens Licinius. Notable members include
• Licinia, a woman killed by her relatives in 142 BC for murdering her husband;
• Murcia
  Murcia
  
  Murcia is the capital city of the Region of Murcia, located at the river Segura in south-eastern Spain. Its population is 433,850 , and the population of its metropolitan area is 743,326 ranking as the ninth-largest metropolitan area of Spain....
  , the name of the women of the gens Murcius.
• Licia, a woman killed by her relatives in 142 BC for murdering her husband. Both Licinia and Mucia appealed for a trial, and before they could come to trial, they were tried by their relatives and executed. This was a major scandal in the censorship of Lucius Mummius Achaius and Scipio Aemilianus.
• Pomponia (mother of Scipio) (2nd century BC), daughter, niece, wife, and mother of consuls; born a plebeian noblewoman but married to a patrician. Mother of Scipio Africanus Major and Scipio Asiaticus
  Scipio Asiaticus
  
  Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus was a Roman Republic general and statesman. He was the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio and younger brother of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus....
  . She was reportedly very religious and devout, but nothing else is known of her including the year of her marriage or death.
• Publilia (1st century BC), the name of a woman of the gens Publilius. She was killed in 154 BC for poisoning her husband, the consul of the preceding year.

Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian House

• Agrippina Major
  Agrippina the elder
  
  Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major was a distinguished and prominent Roman Princess that lived between the 1st century BC and 1st century....
   (1st century
  1st century
  
  The 1st century was the century that lasted from 1 to 100 according the Julian calendar. It is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or History by period...
  ), wife of Germanicus
  Germanicus
  
  Germanicus Julius Caesar Claudianus . Born in Lugdunum, Gaul , was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of the early Roman Empire. At birth he was named either Nero Claudius Drusus after his father or Tiberius Claudius Nero after his uncle and received the agnomen Germanicus, by which he is principally known, in 9 BC, when...
  , granddaughter of Augustus Caesar, mother of emperor Caligula
  Caligula
  
  Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , more commonly known by his nickname Caligula , was the third Roman Emperor, reigning from 16 March 37 until his assassination on 24 January 41....
   and Agrippina the Younger
  Agrippina the Younger
  
  Julia Agrippina; known as Agrippina Minor , was a great granddaughter of Emperor Augustus, great niece and adoptive granddaughter of Emperor Tiberius, sister to Emperor Caligula, wife of Emperor Claudius and mother of Emperor Nero....
   (below)
• Agrippina Minor
  Agrippina the Younger
  
  Julia Agrippina; known as Agrippina Minor , was a great granddaughter of Emperor Augustus, great niece and adoptive granddaughter of Emperor Tiberius, sister to Emperor Caligula, wife of Emperor Claudius and mother of Emperor Nero....
   (1st century
  1st century
  
  The 1st century was the century that lasted from 1 to 100 according the Julian calendar. It is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or History by period...
  ), wife of emperor Claudius
  Claudius
  
  Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
  , mother of emperor Nero
  Nero
  
  Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and final Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty....
  ; held up as a bad example.
• Antonia Major
  Antonia Major
  
  Antonia Major , also known as Antonia the Elder, was a daughter to Mark Antony and Octavia Minor and niece to Augustus, Rome?s first Roman Emperor....
   (1st century BC), grandmother of Emperor Nero
  Nero
  
  Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and final Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty....
  
• Antonia Minor
  Antonia Minor
  
  Antonia Minor , also known as Antonia the Younger or simply Antonia was a daughter of Ancient Rome politician Mark Antony and Octavia Minor, sister of roman emperor Augustus, and mother of future emperor Claudius....
   (1st century BC-1st century AD), mother of Emperor Claudius
  Claudius
  
  Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
   and Germanicus
  Germanicus
  
  Germanicus Julius Caesar Claudianus . Born in Lugdunum, Gaul , was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of the early Roman Empire. At birth he was named either Nero Claudius Drusus after his father or Tiberius Claudius Nero after his uncle and received the agnomen Germanicus, by which he is principally known, in 9 BC, when...
  , favorite niece of Augustus Caesar, considered a role model for women in the Roman Empire after she refused to remarry and spent the rest of her life raising her children and grandchildren.
• Claudia Julia (1st century
  1st century
  
  The 1st century was the century that lasted from 1 to 100 according the Julian calendar. It is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or History by period...
  ),
• Claudia Pulchra
  Claudia Pulchra
  
  Claudia Pulchra was the name of several women of Claudius during the 1st century BC and 1st century. The Latin pulchra is the root of the English word pulchritude ....
  , wife of Publius Quinctilius Varus
  Publius Quinctilius Varus
  
  Publius Quinctilius Varus was a Ancient Rome politician and general under emperor Augustus, mainly remembered for having lost three Roman legions and his own life when attacked by Germanic tribes leader Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest....
  
• Claudia Marcella
  Claudia Marcella
  
  Claudia Marcella was the name of the two daughters of Octavia Minor, the sister of Emperor Augustus, from her first husband, the consul Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor....
  , nieces of Caesar Augustus
• Domitia Lepida Major - aunt of Emperor Nero
  Nero
  
  Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and final Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty....
  
• Domitia Lepida
  Domitia Lepida
  
  Domitia Lepida , Domitia Lepida Minor or simply known as Lepida , was the younger daughter of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Antonia Major....
   - sister of the following, Mother of the Empress Valeria Messalina
• Domitia Longina
  Domitia Longina
  
  Domitia Longina was an Empress and wife to the Roman Emperor Domitian. She was the youngest daughter of the general and Roman consul Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo....
   - wife of Emperor Domitian
  Domitian
  
  Titus Flavius Domitianus , commonly known as Domitian, was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 14 September 81 until his death. Domitian was the last emperor of the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 and 96, encompassing the reigns of Domitian's father Vespasian , his elder brother Titus , and that of Domitian himself...
  
• Domitia Lucilla
  Domitia Lucilla
  
  Domitia Lucilla, Lucilla or Domitia Calvilla was a noble Roman woman who lived in the 2nd century. She is famous as the mother of the future emperor Marcus Aurelius, and also as the patron of another future emperor, Didius Julianus....
   - mother of Emperor Marcus Aurelius
  Marcus Aurelius
  
  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the most important stoicism philosophy....
  
• Domitia Paulina
  Paulina
  
  Paulina or Paullina was the name shared by three relatives of the Roman Emperor Hadrian: his mother, his elder sister and his niece....
   - female relatives of Emperor Hadrian
  Hadrian
  
  Publius Aelius Hadrianus , as emperor Imperator Caesar Divi Traiani filius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, and Divus Hadrianus after his apotheosis, known as Hadrian in English language, was Roman Emperor of Roman Empire from AD 117 to 138, as well as a Stoicism and Epicureanism philosopher....
  
• Julia the Elder
  Julia the Elder
  
  Julia the Elder , known to her contemporaries as Julia Caesaris filia or Julia Augusti filia was the daughter and only natural child of Augustus....
  , daughter of Augustus
• Livia Drusilla (1st century BC), wife of Tiberius Claudius Nero, and then of Augustus Caesar. The first woman to be officially deified.
• Livilla
  Livilla
  
  Livia Julia , most commonly known by her family nickname of Livilla was the only daughter of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor. Her chief role in the history of the Julio-Claudian dynasty was as a bride ? and alleged murderer ? of the heir apparent to the Principate during the reigns of Augustus and her uncle Tiberius....
   (1st century
  1st century
  
  The 1st century was the century that lasted from 1 to 100 according the Julian calendar. It is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or History by period...
  ), granddaughter of Livia
• Messalina
  Messalina
  
  Valeria Messalina, sometimes spelled Messallina, was a Ancient Rome Empress as the third wife of Roman Emperor Claudius. A powerful and influential woman with a reputation for promiscuity, she conspired against her husband and was executed when the plot was discovered....
  , Emperor Claudius
  Claudius
  
  Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
  ' wife, notorious for her promiscuity.
• Octavia Minor
  Octavia Minor
  
  Octavia Minor , also known as Octavia the Younger or simply Octavia, was the sister of the first Roman Emperor, Augustus , half sister of Octavia Major, and fourth wife of Mark Antony....
  , sister of Caesar Augustus and fourth wife of Marc Antony.
• Plautia Urgulanilla
  Plautia Urgulanilla
  
  Plautia Urgulanilla was the first wife of the future Roman Emperor Claudius. They married sometime around the year 9 Common Era, when Claudius was 18 years old....
  , Emperor Claudius
  Claudius
  
  Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
  ' first wife
• Scribonia
  Scribonia
  
  Scribonia was the daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo and Cornelia Sulla . Her brother of the same name was consul and died in 34 BC. She was the second wife of Roman Emperor Augustus and the mother of his only natural child, Julia the Elder....
  , second wife of Augustus and mother of his only legitimate child (whom she apparently ignored until her exile).
• Vipsania first wife of Tiberius
  Tiberius
  
  Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero , was the second Roman Emperor, from the death of Augustus in AD 14 until his own death in 37....
   and the only one he loved.
• Vipsania Julia, Granddaughter of Augustus

Distinguished women of the Roman Empire

• Clodia
  Clodia
  
  Clodia, She is not to be confused with her niece, Clodia Pulchra, who was briefly married to Augustus Caesar.Despite being a woman, Clodia was very well educated in Greek language and Philosophy, with a special talent for writing poetry....
   (1st century BC), Catullus
  Catullus
  
  Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Roman poet of the 1st century BC. His work remains widely studied, and continues to influence poetry and other forms of art....
  's Lesbia
• Domitia Decidiana
  Domitia Decidiana
  
  Domitia Decidiana was a Ancient Rome woman who lived in the 1st century. She was a well-connected woman of illustrious descent.In 62 she married the Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola, who had just recently returned from service in Roman Britain as a military tribune....
   - wife of Roman General Gnaeus Julius Agricola
  Gnaeus Julius Agricola
  
  Gnaeus Julius Agricola was a Roman Empire general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Roman Britain. His biography, the Agricola , was the first published work of his son-in-law, the historian Tacitus, and is the source for most of what is known about him....
   and mother-in-law to historian Tacitus
  Tacitus
  
  Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman Senate and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories —examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those that reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors....
  .
• Galla Placidia
  Galla Placidia
  
  File:Aelia Galla Placidia.jpgAelia Galla Placidia was the Empress consort of Constantius III, Western Roman Empire....
  , (5th century
  5th century
  
  The 5th century is the period from 401 to 500 in accordance with the Julian calendar in Anno Domini/Common Era....
  )
• Julia Domna
  Julia Domna
  
  Julia Domna was a member of the Severan dynasty of the Roman Empire. Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus and mother of Emperors Publius Septimius Geta and Caracalla, Julia was among the most important women ever to exercise power behind the throne in the Roman Empire....
   (3rd century
  3rd century
  
  The 3rd century is the period from 201 to 300 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era/Common Era.In this century, the Roman Empire sees a Crisis of the Third Century, marking the beginning of Late Antiquity....
  ), wife of Septimius Severus
  Septimius Severus
  
  Lucius Septimius Severus was a Roman Empire general, and Roman Emperor from April 14 193 to 211. He was born in what is now the Libyan part of Rome's historic Africa Province, making him the first emperor to be born in the Roman province of Africa Province....
  
• Julia Maesa
  Julia Maesa
  
  Julia Maesa was a Ancient Rome citizenShahid, Irfan . Rome and The Arabs: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Byzantium and the Arabs and daughter of Julius Bassianus, priest of the sun god Heliogabalus , the patron god of Emesa in the Roman province of Syria , and grandmother of both the Roman emperors Elagabalus and Alexander...
   (3rd century
  3rd century
  
  The 3rd century is the period from 201 to 300 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era/Common Era.In this century, the Roman Empire sees a Crisis of the Third Century, marking the beginning of Late Antiquity....
  ), grandmother of Elagabalus
  Elagabalus
  
  Elagabalus , also known as Heliogabalus or Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, was a Roman Emperor of the Severan dynasty who reigned from 218 to 222....
   and Alexander Severus
  Alexander Severus
  
  Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, commonly called Alexander Severus, was the last Roman Emperors of the Severan dynasty, having succeeded, as heir apparent, his despised cousin, the eighteen year old Elagabalus who had been murdered along with his mother by his own guards—and as a mark of contempt, had their remains cast into...
  
• Aquilia Severa
  Aquilia Severa
  
  Iulia Aquilia Severa was the second and fourth wife of Roman Emperor Elagabalus. She was the daughter of Quintus Aquilius, twice consul under Caracalla....
   (3rd century
  3rd century
  
  The 3rd century is the period from 201 to 300 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era/Common Era.In this century, the Roman Empire sees a Crisis of the Third Century, marking the beginning of Late Antiquity....
  ), Vestal Virgin
  Vestal Virgin
  
  In Ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins , were the virgin holy female priests of Vesta , the goddess of the hearth. Their primary task was to maintain the sacred fire of Vesta....
   and wife of Elagabalus
  Elagabalus
  
  Elagabalus , also known as Heliogabalus or Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, was a Roman Emperor of the Severan dynasty who reigned from 218 to 222....
  
• Pomponia Graecina
  Pomponia Graecina
  
  Pomponia Graecina was a noble Ancient Rome woman of the 1st century who was related to the Julio-Claudian dynasty. She was the wife of Aulus Plautius, the general who led the Roman conquest of Britain in 43, and was renowned as one of the few people who dared to publicly mourn the death of a kinswoman killed by the Imperial family....
  , possibly the saint Lucina, a descendant of Vipsania (above)
• Saint Procula wife of Pontius Pilate
  Pontius Pilate
  
  Pontius Pilate was the Roman_governor#Equestrian_procurator of the Roman Empire Iudaea Province from the year AD 26 until AD 36. He is typically known as the sixth Procurator of Judea, but some sources cite him as the fifth....
  

See also

• Women in Ancient Rome