CLAS 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Volumnia
22 Jan 2016
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Aspasia greek courtesan, famous for her relationship with the athenian statesman pericles and for her own intellect. Sabine women wives of the first citizens of rome. Their intervention between their warring fathers and husbands prevented bloodshed. Tullia as the daughter of the second-last king of rome, plotted to murder her father and sister. Lucretia noblewoman whose rape was avenged by her husband and father, resulting in the founding of the roman republic. She was killed by her father to save her from the lust of a patrician. Veturia and volumnia mother and wife respectively of the roman rebel coriolanus. They shamed him into ending his attack on rome. Cornelia daughter, wife, and mother of illustrious roman men. Eumachia prominent woman in pompeii, patroness of the fuller"s guild.
