Scribonia (daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo consul 16)

Scribonia Magna (flourished 1st century), known in modern historical sources as Scribonia Crassi, was a Roman noblewoman that lived in the Roman Empire. Scribonia was the daughter and only child of Lucius Scribonius Libo consul of 16 and Cornelia Pompeia Magna.

Lineage

Scribonia was a noblewoman of the highest birth and descended from ancient, distinguished and politically influential blood. Her maternal grandparents were Pompeia Magna and suffect consul Lucius Cornelia Cinna, while her paternal grandparents were consul of 34 BC, Lucius Scribonius Libo and his wife was a member of the gens Sulpicius, the family that the Roman emperor Galba, descended from on his paternal side. Scribonia’s parents were both direct descendants of Pompeia Magna, the daughter of triumvir Pompey from his third marriage to Mucia Tertia. Lucius Scribonius Libo was a descendant of Pompeia Magna, from her first marriage to senator Faustus Cornelius Sulla, while Cornelia Pompeia Magna was the daughter of Pompeia Magna from her second marriage to suffect consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna.

Biography

Scribonia was born before 16, as in 16 her father was stabbed to death by the Roman emperor Tiberius, who had charged him in planning a revolt against the emperor. Scribonia was born and raised in Rome. Very little is known of her life.

Scribonia married Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi,[1] a man of consular rank. Frugi’s father, consul and governor Marcus Licinius Crassus, was the adopted son of consul and general Marcus Licinius Crassus the grandson of triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus. He was the last known direct descendant of the triumvir and was the last known direct descendant of the triumvir who bore his name.

Children & Descendants

Scribonia bore Frugi the following children:

Death

In the spring of 47 Scribonia, her husband and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus were executed on the orders of Roman empress Valeria Messalina. After Scribonia, her husband and her son had died, the three were placed in the tomb of Licinii Calpurnii that is located on the Via Salaria. Also placed in the tomb was their son, Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi II.

Ancestry

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Syme, The Roman Revolution, p.578
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Shelton, The Women of Pliny's Letters, p.153
  3. ↑ Rutledge, Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian, p.119
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Rudich, Political Dissidence Under Nero: The Price of Dissimulation
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Romeins Imperium – Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi translated from Dutch to English
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 article of Matidia the Elder at Livius.org
  7. ↑ Augustan History - Marcus Aurelius: 1.4, where Rupili Boni is emended to Rupili Libonis
  8. ↑ "Libo Frugi's wife is unknown, but J. Carcopino, REA 51 (1949) 262 ff. argued that she was Matidia. This was supported by H. G. Pflaum, HAC 1963 (1964) 106 f. However, Schumacher, Priesterkollegien 195 points out that Libo Frugi's daughter Rupilia Faustina can hardly have been old enough, in that case, to be the mother of Marcus' father. The only way out would be to suppose that Matidia married Libo before her other two husbands; and was divorced from him (as he was still alive in 101). The theory becomes increasingly implausible." Anthony Richard Birley, Marcus Aurelius, page 244
  9. ↑ Elsner, Life, Death and Representation: Some New Work on Roman Sarcophagi, p.57
  10. ↑ The Cambridge Ancient History. Vol. 5, VII ed. London: Cambridge University Press, 1970-2007.
  11. ↑ Anne Publie. "Les Cneuius". & Anne Publie. "Les Caesoninus"
  12. ↑ Elsner, Life, Death and Representation: Some New Work on Roman Sarcophagi, p.p.31&46

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