Women in the Readings

Index of Women Named in Latin Texts in
The Worlds of Roman Women and Companion
The names of fictitious women are in italics
Aelia Procula, daughter of P. Aelius Asclepiacus and Ulpia Priscilla (2 nd century CE).
CIL 6.10958 (Childhood)
Aelia Sabina, freeborn daughter of freedman P. Aelius Trophimus and Longinia Sabina
(2 nd century CE). CIL 6.10969 (Childhood)
Agrippina Maior, daughter of Marcus Agrippa and Julia; wife of Germanicus (c. 14 BCE-33 CE).
Cornelius Tacitus, Annales 1.33, 40, 69 (excerpts). (State)
Antonia Minor, daughter of Marcus Antonius and Octavia; wife of Drusus (36 BCE-37 CE).
Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 4.3.3 (Marriage)
Arethusa, wife of Lycotas (lst c. BCE).
S. Propertius, Elegiae 4.3 (Marriage)
Atia, daughter of Marcus Atius Balbus; mother of Octavius (Augustus) and Octavia (d. 43/42 BCE).
Cornelius Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus 28-29 (excerpts) (Family)
Aurelia, mother of J.Caesar; reported Clodius’ violation of the women’s festival of the Bona Dea (d. 54
BCE).
Cornelius Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus 28-29 (excerpts) (Family)
Aurelia Agrippinae, wife of P. Aelius Myron (1 st century BCE).
CIL 6.10742 (Family)
Aurelia Nais, seller of fish at the Emporium (2 nd century CE).
CIL 9801, ILS 7500 (Work)
Aurelia Philematium, a freedwoman, wife of the butcher Hermia (1 st century BCE).
ILS 1221, Funerary Inscription (Marriage)
Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, wife of King Prasutagus; led the largest revolt of British tribes
against the Romans (d. 61 CE).
Cornelius Tacitus, Annales XIV.34-35 (State)
Calpurnia, the young second or third wife of Pliny (fl. late 1 st century CE.).
C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus (minor), Epistulae 4.19, 7.5, 8.10 (Learning, Marriage, Body).
Calpurnia Hispulla, the sister of Calpurnia’s dead father (fl. mid-late 1 st century CE).
C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus (minor), Epistulae 4.19 (Learning)
Camilla, leader of the Volscian army of women which fought against the Trojans in Italy (fl. 12 th century
BCE).
P. Vergilius Varo, Aeneis VII.803-817 (State)
Chloe, music girl from Thrace (late 1 st century BCE).
Q. Horatius Flaccus, Carmina 3.9 (Flirtation)

Claudia, matrona (ca. 135-120 BCE).
ILS 8403, Funerary Inscription (Marriage)
Claudia Olympias, memorials to a patrona by her freedman and matrona by her husband (early 2 nd
century CE)
CIL 6.15518-15519 (Class)
Claudia Peregrina, wife of Martial’s friend Pudens (lst c. CE).
M. Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata IV.13 (Marriage)
Claudia Piste, wife of Primus
CIL 6.15546 (Marriage)
Claudia Quinta, matrona who led the ship of the Magna Mater to Rome (fl. 204 BCE).
P. Ovidius Naso, Fasti 4.293-328, 343-344 (State)
Claudia Rufina, wife of Martial’s friend Pudens (fl. mid-late 1 st century CE).
M. Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata 11.53 (Marriage)
Claudia Semne, wife of Marcus Ulpius Crotonensis (fl. 2 nd century CE).
CIL 6.15592, 15593, 15504; ILS 8063 a, b, c (Marriage)
Claudia Syntyche, dedicator of an altar to the Magna Mater, Cybele (1 st century CE ).
CIL 6.492, Votive Inscription (State)
Clodia Metelli, sister of P. Clodius, member of the powerful gens Claudia, wife of Metellus, girlfriend of
Caelius, perhaps the model for Catullus’ Lesbia (fl. Mid-1 st century BCE).
M. Tullius Cicero, Pro Caelio 33-34 (Family)
Coelia Mascellina, daughter of Gn. Coelius Masculus; importer of wine and oil (mid-late 2 nd century
CE).
Signaculum (inscribed bronze stamp) in Latin and Greek (Work)
Cornelia (1), daughter of P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus maior; wife of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus;
mother of Sempronia, Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus (fl. 2 nd century BCE).
M. Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria 1.1.6 (Learning); Cornelius Tacitus, Dialogus de
Oratoribus 28-29 (excerpts), C. Nepos, De Viris Illustribus, frag. 1-2, Valerius Maximus,
Memorabilia IV.4 (Family)
Cornelia (2), daughter of Cornelius Scipio and Scribonia; wife of Paullus Aemilius Lepidus (d. 16 BCE).
S. Propertius, Elegiae 4.11 (excerpts) (Family)
Cornelia (3), wife of M. Aemilius Lepidus (1 st century BCE).
Q. Asconius Pedianus, Ciceronis In Pisonem Enarratio Orationis 13 (Family)
Cornelia Metella, 5 th and last wife of Pompey (1 st century BCE).
M. Annaeus Lucan, De Bello Civili V. (Marriage)
Dido, Queen of Carthage, wife of Sychaeus, lover of Aeneas (f.l.12 th century BCE)
P. Vergilius Varo, Aeneis IV.630-662 (State)
Do[c]ilosa, Docilina, Alogiosa, women of a family that swore an oath to Dea Sulis (2 nd century CE)
Bath, Avon: Defixio #9
Domitia Decidiana, wife of Iulius Agricola; Tacitus’ mother-in-law (fl. 1 st century CE).

Cornelius Tacitus, Agricola 6.1, 3 (Marriage)
Erotion, slave of Martial (1 st century CE).
M. Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata V. 34 (Childhood)
Eucharis, singer and actress (2 nd -1 st century BCE).
ILS 5213, Funerary Inscription (Childhood)
Eumachia, priestess, public benefactor, and wife of M. Numistrius Fronto (1 st century CE).
ILS 3785, 6368 (Religion)
Fortunata, wife of Trimalchio (mid 1 st century CE).
C. Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon 37, 67, 76 (excerpts) (Family)
Furia Spes, freedwoman and loving wife (1 st -2d c. CE).
CIL 6.18817; ILS 8006
Galeria Copiola, actress (1 st century BCE).
C. Plinius Secundus (maior), Naturalis Historia 7.48.158 (Work)
Gnome Pierinis, hairdresser (lst c. BCE).
CIL 6.9730, ILS 7419 (Work)
Gymnasium, daughter of Syra; a meretrix (early 2 nd century BCE).
T. Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria 38-41, 123-4, 133-44 (Work)
Helvia, mother of Seneca (fl. 1 st century CE).
L. Annaeus Seneca, Ad Helviam Matrem de Consolatione 14, 16, 19 (excerpts) (Family)
Hispala Faecenia, freedwoman, courtesan, heroine (fl. 186 BCE).
T. Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 39.9-10 (excerpts) (State)
Hortensia, eloquent daughter of the orator Q. Hortensius Hortalus (1 st century BCE).
M. Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria 1.1.6. (Learning); Valerius Maximus Factorum et
Dictorum Memorabilia 8.3.3 (Class, Learning)
Hygia, midwife (1 st century CE).
CIL 6.6647 (Work)
Iaia Cyzicena, painter (1 st century BCE).
C. Plinius Secundus (maior), Naturalis Historia 35.40.147-8 (Work)
Julia (1) , daughter of Julius Caesar and Cornelia; wife of Pompey (ca. 83-54 BCE).
Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 4.6.4 (Body)
Julia (2), daughter of Octavian (Augustus) and Scribonia (39 BCE-CE 14).
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Vita Divi Augusti 64.2-3. (Learning); A. M. Macrobius Saturnalia 2.51-
5.9 (Body, Learning)
Julia (3), daughter of Julia and Agrippa; granddaughter of Augustus (ca.19 BCE-29 CE).
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Vita Divi Augusti 64.2-3 (Learning)
Julia Procilla, mother of Gn. Julius Agricola (1 st century CE).
Cornelius Tacitus, Agricola 4.1-4. (Family)
Laelia, wife of Q. Mucius Scaevola (fl. 2 nd -1 st century BCE).

M. Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria 1.1.6 (Learning)
Livia Drusilla, Augusta; wife of Augustus; mother and grandmother of emperors (58 BCE-29 CE).
Cornelius Tacitus, Annales 1.3, V.1 (excerpts) (State, Family)
Lucceia, actress (ca. late 1 st century BCE).
C. Plinius Secundus (maior), Naturalis Historia 7.48.158 (Work)
Lydia, one of Horace’s literary girlfriends (late 1 st century BCE).
Q. Horatius Flaccus, Carmina 3.9 (Flirtation)
Marcia Aurelia Ceionia Demetrias, public benefactor (2d c. CE).
CIL 10.5918 (State)
Matrona, wife of Menaechmus (early 2 nd century BCE).
T. Maccius Plautus, Menaechmi 602-652 (Marriage)
Melaenis, mother of Selenium; a meretrix (early 2 nd century BCE).
T. Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria 38-41, 123-4, 133-44 (Work)
Metilia Acte, priestess and wife of G. Iunius Euhodus (2 nd century CE).
CIL 14.371 (Religion)
Minicia Marcella, 13-year-old daughter of Fundanus (ca. 100-110 CE).
C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus (minor), Epistulae 5.16 (Childhood)
Minucia Suavis, daughter of Ti. Claudius Suavis (1 st century CE).
CIL 6.22560 (Childhood)
Monica, mother of St. Augustine (4 th century CE).
Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Confessiones 9.19 (Marriage)
Murdia, honored daughter, wife, and mother (1 st century BCE).
ILS 8394: Laudatio Funebris Murdiae: (excerpts) (Family)
Naevoleia Tyche, wealthy Pompeiian businesswoman and benefactor (1 st century CE).
ILS 6373: Funerary Inscription. (Work)
Olympias, painter (n.d.).
C. Plinius Secundus (maior), Naturalis Historia 35.40.147-8 (Work)
Paulina, wife of L. Seneca Minor who nearly ended her life with his suicide (f. mid-1 st century CE)
Cornelius Tacitus, Annales XV.63-4 (Marriage)
Perilla, poet, stepdaughter, and literary protϑgé of Ovid (fl. early 1 st century CE).
P. Ovidius Naso, Tristia 3.7 (Learning)
Petronia Hedone, mother of L. Petronius Philemon (ca. 110-120 CE).
CIL 6.24037 (Class)
Pompeia Plotina Claudia Phoebe Piso, wife of Trajan (d. ca. 121 CE).
C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus (minor), Panegyricus 83 (marriage)
Porcia, wife of M. Junius Brutus (d. 43 BCE).
Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 4.6.5 (Marriage)

Postumia, Vestal Virgin (420 BCE).
T. Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 4.44 (Body)
Pyrrha, elegant meretrix, torment of lovers (1 st century BC).
Q. Horatius Flaccus, Carmina 1.
Sammula, actress (n.d).
C. Plinius Secundus (maior), Naturalis Historia 7.48.158 (Work)
Sappho, Greek lyric poet of Lesbos (fl. 6 th century BCE).
P. Ovidius Naso, Tristia 3.7 (Learning); M. Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata 10.35 (Marriage)
Scintilla, wife of Habbinas; best friend of Fortunata (mid-1 st century CE).
C. Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon 37, 67, 76 (excerpts) (Family)
Selenium, daughter of Melaenis; a meretrix (early 2 nd century BCE).
T. Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria 38-41, 123-4, 133-44 (Work)
Sempronia, wife of D. Brutus; member of the Catilinarian Conspiracy (fl. 63 BCE).
C. Sallustius Crispus, Bellum Catilinae 24-25 (excerpts) (State)
Silonia, author or victim of a curse (9 th century CE)
CIL 13.7550 a, b
Sophonisba, Queen of Numidia, wife of Kings Syphax and Massinissa; committed suicide (203 BCE)
T. Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 30.12 (Marriage)
Sulpicia (1), poet, daughter of Servius Sulpicius Rufus; ward of M. Valerius Messalla Corvinus (fl. late
1 st century BCE)
Incertus Auctor, De Sulpicia 1. (Body); Sulpicia, Elegidia 1-6 (Flirtation)
Sulpicia (2), poet, wife of Calenus (fl. late 1 st century CE).
Sulpiciae Conquestio lines 7-11 (Learning); M. Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata 10.35, 10.38
(Marriage)
Sulpicia (3), wife of Cornelius Lentullus Cruscellio (fl. mid 1 st century BCE).
Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 6.7 (Marriage)
Syra, mother of Gymnasium; a meretrix (early 2 nd century BCE).
T. Maccius Plautus, Cistellaria 38-41, 123-4, 133-44 (Work)
Tanaquil, Etruscan-born queen; wife of Tarquinius Priscus (6 th century BCE).
T. Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.34-41 (excerpts) (State)
Tarpeia, Vestal Virgin (), daughter of Spurius Tarquinius, Roman commander defending the Capitoline
against a Sabine attack (748 BCE)
Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.11 (State)
Terentia, sister of D. Terentius Gentianus (fl. 130 CE).
ILS 1046a: Funerary Inscription for her brother (Family)
Terentia, wife of Cicero (1 st century BCE).
M. Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 14.4, 20 (Family)

Tertia Aemilia, wife of P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus maior (3 rd -2 nd century BCE).
Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 6.7 (Marriage)
Titia, the name signifies “Jane Doe.”
Gaius, Institutiones 1.144-145, 148-150 (State)
Tretia Maria, victim of a curse (1 st century CE)
RIB 7
Tullia, daughter of Cicero and Terentia (79-45 BCE).
M. Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 14.4, 20 (Family)
Tullia Minor, younger daughter of Servius Tullius; queen; wife of Tarquinius Superbus (fl. 6 th century
BCE).
T. Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.47-48 (excerpts) (State); 1.46-48, 5 (Family)
Turia, matrona; perhaps also wife of Q. Lucretius Vespillo (1 st century BCE).
ILS 8393 “Laudatio Turiae” (excerpts); Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 6.7
(Marriage)
Verginia, founder of the cult of Pudicitia Plebeia, wife of consul L. Volumnius (3 rd century BCE).
T. Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 10.23 (Class)
Veturia, mother of Coriolanus ( fl. 493 BCE).
T. Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 2.40 (State)
Violentilla, bride of L. Arruntius Stella (late 1 st century CE).
P. Statius, Silvae 1.2. 105-122, 138-140 (Body)
Vistilia, aristocrat; married six times; registered as a public prostitute; exiled for adultery (19 CE).
Cornelius Tacitus, Annales II.85.1-4 (Flirtation)
Volumnia, wife of Coriolanus ( fl. 493 BCE).
T. Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 2.40 (State)