Triaria
On Famous Women
Triaria (1st-century) was a Roman woman, the second wife of
Lucius Vitellius the Younger (the brother of emperor Aulus Vitellius
).
She is mentioned on the funeral monument of her favourite slavewoman, Tyrannis, in
Tibur:[1]
According to
She was accused of wearing a soldier's sword and behaving with insolent cruelty after the capture of the town of
Tarracina.[4]
In On Famous Women, Boccaccio praised Triaria for her bravery. [5][6][7] An early French manuscript of this work[8] contains a plate f. 63v (captioned "Miniature showing a bloody slaughter inside a walled city, with Triaria prominent among the wounded warriors.") which may refer to the sack of Tarracina.
Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies (early 15th century) discusses Triaria as well.
See also
Notes
- ^ CIL XIV, 3661.
- ISBN 0-415-11375-X, p86
- ISBN 0-19-283958-6, p94.
- ^ ibid p164.
- ISBN 0-674-00347-0, Ch 94.
- ^ De las mujeres illustres en romance, Johan Boccaccio, Zaragoza, Paulo Hurus, Alemán de Constancia, 1494.
- ^ Original Boccaccio text (in Latin)
- ^ Digital Collections, The New York Public Library. "(text) Miniature showing a bloody slaughter inside a walled city, with Triaria prominent among the wounded warriors., (1450)". The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Retrieved March 11, 2024.
External links
- De memorailibus et claris mulieribus: aliquot diversorum scriptorum opera, Ravisius, Johannes (Ed.)
- Boccaccio on Triaria (in Spanish)
Primary sources
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- Gaius Cornelius TacitusHistoriae ii.63, iii.76-77
- Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale, 2000