Triaria
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Triaria (Junia Calvina Milonia Caecena Alba Terentia)[1], was the wife of Lucius Vitellius the younger (the brother of emperor Aulus Vitellius), in the first century C.E.
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[edit] Life
According to Tacitus, when ex-praetor Plancius Varus implied treasonable behaviour by Dolabella, she terrified the City Prefect, Flavius Sabinus, warning him not to seek a reputation for clemency by endangering the Emperor.[2],[3]
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.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Prosopographia Imperii Romani saeculi I, II et III, E. Groag, A. Stein, L. Petersen (edd.), Berlin, 1933.
- ^ Crime and Punishment in Ancient Rome, Richard A Bauman, Routledge, 2005, ISBN 0-415-11375-X, p86
- ^ The Histories, Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-19-283958-6, p94.
- ^ ibid p164.
- ^ De claris mulieribus, Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. as Famous Women by Virginia Brown, Harvard University Press, 2001, 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)
- ^ Des cleres et nobles femmes, ca. 1450, Spencer Collection Ms. 033, NYPL
[edit] External links
- De memorabilibus et claris mulieribus: aliquot diversorum scriptorum opera, Ravisius, Johannes (Ed.)
- Boccaccio on Triaria (in Spanish)
- Lucius Vitellius
[edit] Primary Sources
- Gaius Cornelius Tacitus Historiae ii.63, iii.76-77
