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,was executed on the orders of Commodus.^[3]^[1]^[6]

References

^ ^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

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

[:0-1] 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.

[:1-3] McHugh, John S. (2015-08-31). The Emperor Commodus: God and Gladiator. Casemate Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4738-7167-0.

[:2-4] 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.

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