- Triaria
Triaria (
Junia Calvina Milonia Caecena Alba Terentia) ["Prosopographia Imperii Romani saeculi I, II et III", E. Groag, A. Stein, L. Petersen (edd.), Berlin, 1933.] , was the wife ofLucius Vitellius the younger (the brother of emperorAulus Vitellius ), in the first century C.E.Life
According to
Tacitus , when ex-praetorPlancius Varus implied treasonable behaviour by Dolabella, she terrified the City Prefect,Flavius Sabinus , warning him not to seek a reputation for clemency by endangering the Emperor. ["Crime and Punishment in Ancient Rome", Richard A Bauman, Routledge, 2005, ISBN 0-415-11375-X, p86] , ["The Histories", Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-19-283958-6, p94.]She was accused of wearing a soldier's sword and behaving with "insolent cruelty" after the capture of the town of Tarracina. ["ibid" p164.]
In "
On Famous Women ", Boccaccio praised Triaria for her bravery. ["De claris mulieribus", Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. as "Famous Women" by Virginia Brown, Harvard University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-674-00347-0, Ch 94.] , ["De las mujeres illustres en romance", Johan Boccaccio, Zaragoza, Paulo Hurus, Alemán de Constancia, 1494.] , [ ] An early French manuscript of this work ["Des cleres et nobles femmes", ca. 1450, [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=251788&imageID=427526&word=Triaria&s=1¬word=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&total=1&num=0&imgs=12&pNum=&pos=1 Spencer Collection Ms. 033, NYPL] ] contains a plate f. 63v (captioned "Miniature showing a bloody slaughter inside a walled city, with Triaria prominent among the wounded warriors.") which may refer to the sack of Tarracina.Notes
External links
* [http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/muliers/muliers1/s123.html "De memorabilibus et claris mulieribus: aliquot diversorum scriptorum opera", Ravisius, Johannes (Ed.)]
* [http://www.uv.es/~lemir/Textos/Mujeres/Boc/Triaria.html Boccaccio on Triaria (in Spanish)]
* [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/3606.html Lucius Vitellius]Primary Sources
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Gaius Cornelius Tacitus "Historiae ii.63, iii.76-77
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