Sulpicia (wife of Quintus Fulvius Flaccus)
Sulpicia (fl. 113 BC) was the wife of Quintus Fulvius Flaccus and earned everlasting fame when she was determined to be the most chaste of all the Roman matrons.[2]
Biography
The daughter of
On Famous Women, fifteen hundred years later.[6]
The statue itself predates the temple in which it stood by over a hundred years, and so must originally have been dedicated someplace else—perhaps at the Temple of Venus Erycina on the Capitoline or the Temple of Venus Obsequens.[7]
See also
- Veneralia
- Gens Sulpicia
References
Citations
Bibliography
- ISBN 0-87220-674-2.
- Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Naturalis Historia.
- Gaius Julius Solinus, De Mirabilis Mundi (The Wonders of the World).
- ISBN 0-674-01130-9.
- "Sulpicia" (no. 2), in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
- L. Richardson, Jr., A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, Johns Hopkins University Press (1992).