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Cornelia (c. 190s – c. 115 BC) was the second daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, a Roman general prominent in the Second Punic War, and Aemilia Paulla. Although drawing similarities to prototypical examples of virtuous Roman women, such as Lucretia , Cornelia puts herself apart from the rest because of her interest in literature ...
This is the family tree of the Cornelii Scipiones — a prominent family of the Roman Republic — who were allied with the Sempronii Gracchi, Aemilii Paulli, and Caecilii Metelli, whose members are also shown. Only magistracies attested with certainty in Broughton's Magistrates of the Roman Republic have been mentioned. The dotted lines show ...
The Gracchi brothers were two brothers who lived during the beginning of the late ... Their mother was Cornelia, the daughter of the renowned general Scipio ...
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 ...
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.
Amie, a descendant of a Holocaust survivor, meets Cornelia, who is untangling her family's Nazi past. 'My family was murdered at Auschwitz. Her grandfather drove trains to the camp'
Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi Pointing to her Children as her Treasures: c. 1785: oil on canvas: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,USA: Catalogue entry: Portrait: Lady Elizabeth Christiana Hervey, Lady Elizabeth Foster, later Duchess of Devonshire (1759–1824) 1785–1787: oil on canvas: Ickworth, Suffolk: Catalogue entry: Portrait: Countess ...
Nearly a year after becoming a father, Robert Pattinson is loving life as a Dad. The actor, 38, spoke to Extra on the red carpet at the Mickey 17 world premiere in London on Thursday, Feb. 13 ...