Domnina (daughter of Nero)
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According to a Christian tradition, recorded in
Domnina is not recorded in historical sources, and the story is likely a Christian myth dating to late antiquity, or to the Middle Ages. Nero's only recorded daughter was named Claudia Augusta, and died in infancy.
A daughter of Nero's is also mentioned in some versions of the medieval fable of 'Virgil in the basket', as the lady who is the subject of the poet's affections.[citation needed] Such tales often blend fact with fiction and freely conflate and combine items from different eras of history, without regard for the actual chronology.
References
- ISBN 978-0-8308-3514-0.
External links
- Ziolkowski, Jan M.; Putnam, Michael C. J. (2008). The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years. Yale University Press. p. 877. ISBN 978-0-300-10822-4.
- Tunison, Joseph Salathiel (1890). Master Virgil, the author of the Aeneid, as he seemed in the Middle Ages, a series of studies. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co – via Internet Archive.
- Shapiro, Marianne (2005). From the Critic's Workbench: Essays in Literature and Semiotics. Peter Lang. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-8204-7915-6.