Aconia Fabia Paulina
Aconia Fabia PaulinaMagna Mater.
Biography
Paulina was the daughter of
Magna Mater (as a tauroboliata) and Isis
.
Praetextatus and Paulina owned at least two houses. The first was on the
Vestal Virgins, who had erected a statue in honour of Praetextatus after his death (384); in exchange for this honour Paulina dedicated a statue to Concordia.[3] They also had a house on the Aventine Hill.[4]
On the base of the funerary monument to Pratextatus,[5] Paulina had a poem composed by herself inscribed, which celebrated her husband and their love, a poem probably derived by the oration read by Paulina at her husband's funeral.[4] This poem is cited by Jerome in a letter in which he mocks Praetextatus, claiming he was not in paradise but in hell.[6]
Paulina died shortly after her husband. Their son or daughter dedicated them a funerary monument with statues in their house.[7]
Notes
- ^ She is called Aconia Fabia Paulina in CIL VI, 1779, Fabia Aconia Paulina in CIL VI, 1780, Fabia Paulina in CIL VI, 2145 or Paulina in CIL VI, 1779 and in Symmachus' letter I.48).
- ^ Musei Capitolini Archived 2009-12-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ CIL VI, 2145.
- ^ a b Kahlos
- ^ CIL VI, 1799.
- ^ Jerome, letter 23.
- ^ CIL VI, 1777.
Bibliography
Primary sources
Secondary sources
- Kahlos, Maijastina, "Paulina and the Death of Praetextatus", Arduum res gestas scribere
- Kahlos, Maijastina, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus. A senatorial life in between, Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Roma, 2002, ISBN 952-5323-05-6(Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 26).
- Lanciani, Rodolfo, Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries, Houghton & Mifflin, Boston e New York, 1898, pp. 169–170.
- Stevenson, Jane, Women Latin Poets, Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-818502-2, pp. 71–72.
- Thayer, Bill, "Honorific Inscription of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus", Lacus Curtius