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Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, by Noël Hallé (1779, Musée Fabre). It is important to note that M. I. Finely advances the argument that "the exclusion of women from any direct participation in political or governmental activity" [6] was a normal practice in Ancient Roman society.
Their mother was Cornelia, the daughter of the renowned general Scipio Africanus, the hero of the Second Punic War. [38] Their sister Sempronia also was the wife of Scipio Aemilianus , another important general and politician. [ 39 ]
Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, by Noël Hallé (1779, Musée Fabre). Haec ornamenta mea is a Latin phrase meaning "These are my jewels" or "These are my ornaments". The expression is attributed to Cornelia Africana (c. 190 – c. 100 BC) by Valerius Maximus in his Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX, IV, 4, incipit, [1] [2] [3] where he related an anecdote demonstrating Cornelia's ...
Pietro Antonio Leone Bettelini after Vincenzo Camuccini, "Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Presents Her Children to a Capuana Woman," 1870/1909, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, presenting her children and saying: "Here are my treasures" title QS:P1476,fr:"Cornélie, mère des Gracques, montre ses enfants, en disant: "Voici mes richesses et mes bijoux" "
Pliny the Younger and His Mother at Misenum: 1785: oil on canvas: Princeton University Art Museum, USA: Catalogue entry: Portrait: Young Woman, Possibly Anna Charlotta Dorothea von Medem, Duchess of Courland (1761–1821) 1785: oil on canvas: Private Sold at Sotheby's 2009: Sotheby's entry: History: Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi Pointing to ...
Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to her Children as Her Treasures, by Angelica Kauffmann (1785, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) Sempronia (170 BC – after 101 BC) was a Roman noblewoman living in the Middle and Late Roman Republic, who was most famous as the sister of the ill-fated Tiberius Gracchus (died 133 BC) and Gaius Gracchus ...
Cornelia: c. 190s – c. 115 BC Daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the hero of the Second Punic War. She was the mother of the Gracchi brothers, and the mother-in-law of Scipio Aemilianus. Servilia: 100 BC – after 42 BC The mother of Roman politician Brutus and a lover of Julius Caesar, whom her son would later assassinate.