Volusia Latina Saturnina | |
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| Spouse | Marcus Lollius |
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Volusia Saturnina also known from her funeral inscription as Volusia Latina Saturnina[1] was a Roman noble woman who lived in the Roman Empire in the second half of the 1st century BC and first half of the first century AD.
Family background
Saturnina came from an ancient and distinguished Senatorial family, that never rose above the Praetorship[2] which was of eques status.[3]
She was the daughter of the suffect consul Lucius Volusius Saturninus by his wife Nonia Polla.[4] Volusia Saturnina was a first cousin once removed to Roman emperor Tiberius and his brother, the General Nero Claudius Drusus.[5] Her brother was the suffect consul Lucius Volusius Saturninus.[6]
Marriage and issue
Saturnina married Marcus Lollius,[7] the son of the consul and military leader Marcus Lollius[8] and his wife Aurelia. Aurelia was a sister to the Roman Senator Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus.[9]
Saturnina and Lollius had two daughters:[8]
References
- ^ Hainzmann, Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum, p.718 & 894
- ^ Tacitus, Annales, III.30
- ^ Genealogy of Volusius Saturninus by D.C. O’Driscoll
- ^ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (2001). ZPE. Vol. 136. University of Michigan: Habelt. p. 229.
- ^ Ronald Syme, The Roman Revolution (Oxford: University Press, 1960), p. 424
- ^ Syme, Ronald (1989). The Augustan Aristocracy (illustrated and revised ed.). Clarendon Press. pp. ?. ISBN 9780198147312.
- ^ Rickman, Roman Granaries and Store Buildings, p. 169
- ^ a b Marcus Lollius’ article at Livius.org
- ^ Syme, Roman Revolution, p. 178
Sources
- Tacitus - The Annals of Imperial Rome
- G. Rickman, Roman Granaries and Store Buildings, CUP Archive, 1971
- M. Hainzmann & P. Schubert, Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum, Walter de Gruyter, 1987
- Lollia Gens article at ancient library
- Marcus Lollius no. 5 article at ancient library
- Quintus Volusius no.2 article at ancient library
- Romeins Imperium – Lucius Quintus Volusius Saturninus translated from Dutch to English
- Genealogy of Volusius Saturninus by D.C. O’Driscoll
- Marcus Lollius’ article at Livius.org
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