Volusia Saturnina

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Volusia Latina Saturnina
SpouseMarcus Lollius
ChildrenLollia Saturnina
Lollia Paulina
Parents

Volusia Saturnina also known from her funeral inscription as Volusia Latina Saturnina[1] was a Roman noble woman who lived in the Roman Empire in the second half of the 1st century BC and first half of the first century AD.

Family background[edit]

Saturnina came from an ancient and distinguished Senatorial family, that never rose above the Praetorship[2] which was of eques status.[3]

She was the daughter of the suffect consul Lucius Volusius Saturninus by his wife Nonia Polla.[4] Volusia Saturnina was a first cousin once removed to Roman emperor Tiberius and his brother, the General Nero Claudius Drusus.[5] Her brother was the suffect consul Lucius Volusius Saturninus.[6]

Marriage and issue[edit]

Saturnina married Marcus Lollius,[7] the son of the consul and military leader Marcus Lollius[8] and his wife Aurelia. Aurelia was a sister to the Roman Senator Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus.[9]

Saturnina and Lollius had two daughters:[8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hainzmann, Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum, p.718 & 894
  2. ^ Tacitus, Annales, III.30
  3. ^ Genealogy of Volusius Saturninus by D.C. O’Driscoll
  4. ^ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (2001). ZPE. Vol. 136. University of Michigan: Habelt. p. 229.
  5. ^ Ronald Syme, The Roman Revolution (Oxford: University Press, 1960), p. 424
  6. ^ Syme, Ronald (1989). The Augustan Aristocracy (illustrated and revised ed.). Clarendon Press. pp. ?. ISBN 9780198147312.
  7. ^ Rickman, Roman Granaries and Store Buildings, p. 169
  8. ^ a b Marcus Lollius’ article at Livius.org
  9. ^ Syme, Roman Revolution, p. 178

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