Aemilia Tertia
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Aemilia Paulla
)Aemilia Tertia (d. 162 or 163 BC), properly Aemilia,[1][2] was the wife of Scipio Africanus.[3]
Life
She was a member of the
gens Aemilia, one of the ancient Roman patrician families,[4] and the daughter of the Lucius Aemilius Paullus who was consul in 219 and 216 BC.[5] Paullus died in 216 at the Battle of Cannae[6] and she married Africanus, then known only as Publius Cornelius Scipio, some time around the battle.[7]
In life she was known for her ostentatious displays of wealth.
Capitoline hill.[11]
Aemilia died in 162 or 163 BC. The funeral was likely organised by
adoptive son of her son Publius.[13][14] Many of the precious instruments she had used for public religious rites were passed down in the Cornelian family, "memorial[ising] her and adorn[ing] her female relatives".[15]
Family
She is known to have had two brothers: Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus and Marcus Livius Aemilianus.[16]
Aemilia bore four children with Africanus.[4] There were two sons, Publius and Lucius: Publius was made augur in 180 BC; Lucius was praetor in 174 BC.[17] They also had two daughters named Cornelia: the elder married Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum[18] and the younger married the consul of 177 BC, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus.[19]
References
Citations
- ^ Klebs 1893.
- ^ Kajanto 1972, p. 18 n. 2. "Val. Max. 6.7.1, records her as Aemilia Tertia, but this may be a mistake on his part. All the other authors, including Polybius, call her only Aemilia".
- ^ Zmeskal 2009, p. 22.
- ^ a b Webb 2018, p. 267.
- ^ Zmeskal 2009, p. 22, citing, among others, Plut. Aem. 2.5.
- ^ Zmeskal 2009, p. 21; Plut. Aem. 2.3.
- OCLC 936322646.
Scipio was married to – or would soon marry, the chronology is uncertain – Paullus' daughter, Aemilia
- ^ Hillard 2001, p. 48, citing Polyb. 31.26.3–5.
- ^ Webb 2018, passim.
- ^ Webb 2018, pp. 268–70.
- ^ a b Webb 2018, p. 271.
- ^ Webb 2018, pp. 265–66, citing Polyb. 31.26–27 with further analysis.
- ^ Hillard 2001, p. 48, citing Polyb. 31.26.1–2, 27.3–4, 28.1. Aemilianus was also one of Aemilia's biological nephews. Webb 2018, p. 268.
- ^ Zmeskal 2009, p. 100.
- ^ Webb 2018, p. 275.
- ^ Zmeskal 2009, pp. 21–22.
- ^ Zmeskal 2009, p. 98.
- ^ Zmeskal 2009, p. 99.
- ^ Zmeskal 2009, pp. 22, 99–100, citing Val. Max. 6.7.1.
Sources
- Hillard, T W (2001). "Popilia and laudationes funebres for women". Antichthon. 35: 45–63. ISSN 0066-4774.
- Kajanto, Iiro (1972). "Women's praenomina reconsidered". Arctos: Acta Philologica Fennica. 7: 13–30.
- Klebs, Elimar (1893). . Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (in German). Vol. I, 1. Stuttgart: Butcher. col. 592 – via Wikisource.
- Zmeskal, Klaus (2009). Adfinitas (in German). Vol. 1. Passau: Verlag Karl Stutz. ISBN 978-3-88849-304-1.
- Webb, Lewis (2018). "Mihi es aemula: Elite Female Status Competition in Mid-Republican Rome and the Example of Tertia Aemilia". In Damon, Cynthia (ed.). Eris vs Aemulatio : valuing competition in classical antiquity. Leiden: Brill. OCLC 1056201318.