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    Empress Crispina. Lucilla's husband, Pompeianus, was not involved, but two men alleged to have been her lovers, Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus (the...
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    to the Nerva-Antonine dynasty; Rupilla was the step-daughter of Salonia Matidia, who was the niece of the emperor Trajan. Marcus's mother, Domitia Lucilla...
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    husband. The Historia Augusta mentions adultery with sailors, gladiators, and men of rank; however, Faustina and Aurelius seem to have been very close and...
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    (2) Libo Rupilius Frugi (3) Salonia Matidia L. Vibius Sabinus (1) Paulina Minor L. Julius Ursus Servianus Matidia Minor Sabina Hadrian (r. 117–138) Antinous...
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    Sextius Cornelius Africanus become Roman consuls. August 29 – Salonia Matidia receives the title of Augusta upon the death of Marciana. Hadrian succeeds...
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    successor-designate in these terms: After revolving in his mind several men of distinguished merit, whom he esteemed and hated, [Hadrian] adopted Ælius...
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    Concubinage was a form of female companionship sometimes chosen by powerful men in Ancient Rome, especially widowers like Vespasian, and Marcus Aurelius...
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    Cicero—and his family. His daughters were in Rome, with their great-great-aunt Matidia Minor; Marcus thought the evening air of the country was too cold for them...
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  • Aurelius: A Biography (2nd revised ed.). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-17125-3. "Matidia the Elder". Livius.org. Retrieved 24 March 2020. "Faustina, Annia Galeria...
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    unknown. It has been hypothesized Rupilia Faustina's mother was Salonia Matidia, who was also the mother through another marriage of Vibia Sabina, Hadrian's...
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    Hadrian could also count on the support of his mother-in-law, Salonia Matidia, who was the daughter of Trajan's beloved sister Ulpia Marciana. When Ulpia...
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    death. His elder sister was Ulpia Marciana, and his niece was Salonia Matidia. Very little is known about Trajan's early formative years, but it is thought...
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    pp 27-28. Olson (2008), 71; Bartman (2001), 10 Olson (2008), 74 Bust of Matidia, London, The British Museum 1805.7-3.96; Bartman (2001), 10 Stephens, Janet...
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    Marcion of Sinope, Greek theologian and founder of Marcionism (d. 160) Vibia Matidia (the Younger), Roman noblewoman (approximate date) AD 86 September 19 –...
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    occupied with family matters. Matidia, his great-aunt, had died. Her will was invalid under the lex Falcidia: Matidia had assigned more than three-quarters...
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    Antinous (category Deified ancient Roman men)
    reliable early evidence that he was sexually attracted to boys and young men. For centuries, pederasty existed among Greece's leisured and citizen classes...
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    Townley Hadrian (category Sculptures of men in London)
    arranged together with busts of Hadrian's Vibia Sabina, mother-in-law Salonia Matidia, and grandmother-in-law Ulpia Marciana alongside busts of Marciana's brother...
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    family. The assemblage included more imperial women than men. The inscription for Salonia Matidia (died 119) uses the posthumous title diva, while that of...
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    large ornamental craters and the portraits of Hadrian, Vibia Sabina and Matidia from the Horti Tauriani. XXV - Exedra of Marcus Aurelius; the new wing...
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    Marcus Ulpius Traianus (father of Trajan) (category Deified ancient Roman men)
    W. Benario, 2000), "Hadrian". Giacosa (1977), p. 9. Husband of Salonia Matidia: Levick (2014), p. 161. Smith (1870), "Julius Servianus". Smith (1870)...
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    ISSN 1496-9343. Bradley, Keith R. (1985). "Child Care at Rome: The Role of Men". Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques. 12 (3): 485–523. ISSN 0315-7997...
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    succeeding Antonines added a temple to Hadrian's mother-in-law, the Divine Matidia, and a temple to the Divine Hadrian himself built by Antoninus Pius. As...
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  • Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial) - writer Marullus - rhetor Salonia Matidia - niece of Trajan Gaius Matius - friend of Cicero Gnaeus Matius - writer...
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  • brother was Gaius Julius Antiochus Epiphanes Philopappos, one of the first men of eastern descent to become consul at Rome. Balbilla's parents were distant...
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    Publius Juventius Celsus, Roman consul (d. 130) AD 68 July 4 – Salonia Matidia, niece of Trajan (d. AD 119) Flavius Scorpus, Roman charioteer (approximate...
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    stamped fistulae (lead pipes) was possibly sponsored by Matidia the Younger (daughter of Matidia the Elder, a niece of Trajan), therefore it might have...
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  • sought approval for establishing a corpus juvenum for the education of young men. Libo married a noblewoman whose name has been surmised as Fundania, daughter...
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  • suffect consul in 80. Plautia is believed to have married three different men, by whom she had at least four children: Lucius Ceionius Commodus, consul...
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  • effect of his manoeuvering seems to have been to ensure that the kind of men who had carried on the government under Alexander Severus were restored to...
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  • Commodus, in December 192, the civil war that ensued saw five different men assume the throne; Plautius was not one of them. When Septimus Severus, the...
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