Vibia Aurelia Sabina

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Vibia Aurelia Sabina
Lucius Aurelius Agaclytus
DynastyNerva–Antonine
FatherMarcus Aurelius
MotherFaustina the Younger

Vibia Aurelia Sabina (170 AD – before 217 AD) was the youngest daughter and child born to

Marcus Annius Verus
.

Life

Aurelia Sabina could have been born in Sirmium, Pannonia. In the year of her birth, her parents were preparing war expeditions at Sirmium. Aurelia Sabina was named in honor of the late Roman Empress Vibia Sabina, who was the wife of the Roman Emperor Hadrian and her late father the distinguished suffect consul Lucius Vibius Sabinus. Vibia Sabina was a relative of Aurelia Sabina's parents, as a great aunt to Aurelia Sabina's parents, as step-sister to Rupilia Faustina. Rupilia Faustina was the paternal grandmother of Marcus Aurelius and the maternal grandmother of Faustina the Younger.[1][2]

Throughout her childhood, Aurelia Sabina had travelled extensively with her parents throughout the

Africa Province
, whom she later married.

When her parents died, her older brother Commodus succeeded her father as Roman Emperor in 180 AD. After Aurelia Sabina married Antistius Burrus in Rome, they returned and settled in Thibilis. In 181 AD, her husband served as an ordinary consul there. In 188 AD, Antistius Burrus was involved in a conspiracy against Commodus.

He was one of various Roman Senators in this conspiracy.[3] When this conspiracy was uncovered, Antistius Burrus was put to death.

Prominent Italian resident in Roman Africa

Aurelia Sabina was not involved in the conspiracy and survived her brother's persecutions, remaining to live in Roman Africa.

After her first husband had died, Aurelia Sabina married

Equestrian
rank. Aurelia Sabina spent her remaining years in Thibilis. It appears from her marriages that she had no children.

Due to her status; the status of her family and her connections, Aurelia Sabina became a prominent Italian resident in

Calama[4] was promoted to Roman colonia, while sponsored by Vibia Aurelia Sabina and the city honoured her as their "patrona".[5]

Nerva–Antonine family tree

References

  1. ^ Rupilius. Strachan stemma.
  2. .
  3. ^ Septimius conspiracy
  4. ^ "Guelma-Calama" Encyclopædia Britannica
  5. ^ J. Nichols, "Patrona duitatis :Gender and Civic Patronage" in Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History V (1989) [1]

Sources

  • From Tiberius to the Antonines: a history of the Roman Empire AD 14-192, by Albino Garzetti, 1974
  • The Roman Government of Britain, by Anthony R. Birley, Oxford University Press, 2005
  • Marcus Aurelius, by Anthony Richard Birley, Routledge, 2000