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    Volumnia is a character in William Shakespeare's play Coriolanus, the mother of Caius Martius Coriolanus. She plays a large role in Coriolanus' life, encouraging...
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    Finally, Volumnia is sent to meet her son, along with Coriolanus's wife Virgilia and their child, and the chaste gentlewoman Valeria. Volumnia succeeds...
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  • another academy student, sneaks into the games to mourn Marcus, and Dr. Volumnia Gaul, the head gamemaker, sends an indifferent Snow in to retrieve him...
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  • Volumnia is a character in Shakespeare's Coriolanus Volumnia may also refer to: Volumnia (wife of Coriolanus), historical person in ancient Rome Volumnia...
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  • character, with Gerard Butler as Tullus Aufidius, Vanessa Redgrave as Volumnia, and Brian Cox as Menenius. This is Fiennes' directorial debut. It places...
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    Volumnia Cytheris (fl. 1st-century BC) was an ancient Roman actress and mimae dancer. She is foremost known as the mistress of several famous Romans. Possibly...
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    Gens Volumnia was an ancient Roman patrician family of Etruscan origin, attested as early as the seventh century BC. It is known firstly from Volumnia, wife...
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    Bleak House (redirect from Volumnia Dedlock)
    is a prosperous ironmaster. Watt Rouncewell is Robert Rouncewell's son. Volumnia is a cousin of the Dedlocks, given to screaming. Miss Barbary is Esther's...
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    as Tigris Snow, Peter Dinklage as Casca Highbottom, Viola Davis as Dr. Volumnia Gaul and Jason Schwartzman as Lucretius "Lucky" Flickerman. The first three...
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    William Shakespeare's play Coriolanus (1607–1610), in which same play Volumnia is his mother. The life of the legendary figure Caius Marcius Coriolanus...
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    Glenea Species: G. apicalis Binomial name Glenea apicalis (Chevrolat, 1857) Synonyms Saperda apicalis Chevrolat, 1857 Volumnia apicalis (Chevrolat, 1857)...
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  • to District 12. Coriolanus is sent to the Capitol, where Gamemaster Dr. Volumnia Gaul reveals she procured him a pardon and scholarship to the Capitol University...
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    ambassadors. Then Coriolanus' mother Veturia (known as Volumnia in Shakespeare's play) and his wife Volumnia (known as Virgilia in Shakespeare's play) and his...
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  • described by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe in 1888, originally under the genus Volumnia. BioLib.cz - Glenea morosa. Retrieved on 8 September 2014. v t e...
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    portrait of his wife, Volumnia Washington Hunley Barrow, sister of Confederate submarine captain Horace Hunley, and their daughter, Volumnia Roberta. The portrait...
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  • designer, and she and Coriolanus are shown to care deeply for each other. Dr. Volumnia Gaul is a sadistic and misanthropist mad scientist who is the indirect...
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  • Volumnia (according to Plutarch, her name was Vergilia) was the wife of Gaius Marcius Coriolanus in ancient Rome. Coriolanus was exiled from Rome following...
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    (which marked actor Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut), in which she plays Volumnia; and Roland Emmerich's Anonymous (both 2011), as Queen Elizabeth I. Subsequently...
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  • starring Kim Cattrall. In 2006 she directed Hamlet and in 2007 she played Volumnia in Coriolanus in Stratford-upon-Avon, for which she received excellent...
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    could not understand. She said to Shaw that she had been asked to play Volumnia in Coriolanus, but "isn't she a bloodthirsty old harridan? I could never...
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    ) Tarquitia gens – Patrician Urgulania gens Verginia gens – Patrician Volumnia gens – Patrician The historical Etruscans had achieved a state system of...
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    descendants. Barrow was politically active in Louisiana. Barrow married Volumnia Washington Hunley, the sister of Confederate Navy officer Horace Lawson...
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  • In 2013 she starred in the Donmar Warehouse production of Coriolanus as Volumnia, a role which earned her Clarence Derwent award for best supporting actress...
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    August 2022, it was reported that Davis was cast as Head Gamemaker Dr. Volumnia Gaul in the prequel to The Hunger Games film series, The Hunger Games:...
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    Species: C. irene Binomial name Catocala irene Behr, 1870 Synonyms Catocala volumnia H. Edwards, 1880 Catocala virgilia H. Edwards, 1880 Catocala irene var...
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  • wife of the Emperor Justinian and, after her death, an Orthodox saint. Volumnia Cytheris (1st century BC), Roman mimae actress and courtesan Amrapali (5th...
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    Bessie Burgess Young Vic The Sea Mrs Rafi Lyttelton (RNT) 1992 Coriolanus Volumnia Chichester Festival Theatre The Gift of the Gorgon Helen Damson Barbican...
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    Theatre to play Volumnia in Coriolanus, with Sir Ian McKellen in the title role. The impresario Joseph Papp persuaded her to repeat Volumnia off-Broadway...
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    Sulpicia Tarpeia Tarquinia Tarquitia Tullia Valeria Verginia Veturia Vitellia Volumnia A number of other gentes originally belonged to the patricians but were...
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  • Season at the Albery Theatre. With this company she also played her second Volumnia in Coriolanus, opposite Ralph Fiennes in London, New York City and Tokyo...
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