Tanaquil
Tanaquil (
Life
The daughter of a powerful
Tanaquil's prophecy was eventually realized for Tarquin—he eventually became friends with King
She had four children, two daughters and two sons,
Tanaquil played a role in the rise of Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome. Raising him as her own child, Tanaquil believed Servius would be the next successor to the throne. Her dreams would be realized when, one day Servius was sleeping and his head was surrounded with flames. The fires danced around his head without hurting him and when Servius awoke, the fire disappeared.
Gaia Caecilia
In an alternate tradition reported by several Roman chroniclers, Tanaquil changed her name to Gaia Caecilia when she arrived at Rome. Under this name she was regarded as the model of womanly virtue, skilled in the domestic arts, particularly spinning and weaving, and she was associated with the origin of various Roman wedding customs.[9][10][11][12]
Pliny reports that in his day, six hundred years later, her spindle and distaff were preserved in the Temple of
See also
Notes
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, pp. 976–977 ("Tarquinius")
- ^ a b Livy, History of Rome, i. 34.
- ^ Livy, History of Rome, i. 35.
- ^ Livy, History of Rome, i. 39.
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 1184 ("Servius Tullius")
- ^ Livy, History of Rome, i. 41.
- ^ Cassius Dio, fr.9 Roman History, book ii.
- ^ Livy, History of Rome, i. 42.
- ^ Festus, Epitome of Flaccus' On the Meaning of Words, s. v. Gaia Caecilia.
- ^ a b Pliny the Elder, Natural History, viii. 74. s. 194.
- ^ Liber de Praenominibus, a short treatise of uncertain authorship, traditionally appended to Valerius Maximus' Factorum ac Dictorum Memorabilium (Memorable Facts and Sayings).
- ^ Plutarch, Moralia, "Roman Questions", 30.
- ^ Karen K. Hersch, "The Woolworker Bride", pp. 122–124.
- ^ Boccaccio, Famous Women, pp. 94-95.
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- "Tanaquil", in Encyclopaedia Britannica, online (retrieved 9 May 2007).
- Karen K. Hersch, "The Woolworker Bride", in Ancient Marriage in Myth and Reality, Lena Larsson Lovén, Agneta Strömberg, eds., Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2010).