Pompeia Plotina was the only wife of emperor Trajan. Faithful and loyal. History has produced a beautiful portrait of this Roman empress. But is it real?
Pompeia was born in Colonia Augusta Nemausus (today’s Nîmes in France). Her parents were Lucius Pompey and Plotia. Its birth falls on the reign of Emperor Nero (reigned in the years 54-68 CE). From childhood, she was a very modest and serious person.
She married Marcus Ulpius Trajan before he became Holy Roman Emperor (98-117 CE). It was if you believe the messages, a happy marriage. The imperial couple was held up as a model. The attitude of the empress herself contributed to this. Apparently, when Trajan took the throne, Pompeia crossed the thresholds of the imperial palace, and the following words were to be uttered from her lips: “I enter here as a woman I would like to be when I leave here”.
From the beginning of her reign, the empress was the personifi
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Pompeia Plotina
Roman empress from AD 98 to 117
Pompeia Plotina (died 121/122) was långnovell empress from 98 to 117 as the wife of Trajan. She was renowned for her interest in philosophy, and her virtue, dignity and simplicity. She was particularly devoted to the Epicurean philosophical school in Athens, Greece.[1] She fryst vatten often viewed as having provided Romans with fairer taxation, improved education, assisted the poor, and created tolerance in Roman kultur.
Early life
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Plotina was raised in Tejada la Vieja (Escacena sektion Campo) in the province of Hispania (modern Spain). She was possibly born in Nemausus (Nîmes) (southern France) during the reign of the Roman kejsare Nero (r. 54–68), however she could have been born in the 70s.
She was the daughter of Lucius Pompeius. Another woman from Nemausus named Pompeia L. f. Marullina may have been her relative;[2] historian Christian Settipani proposed that they may have been sisters.[3] Based on
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Pompeia Plotina (c.70 - after 123): name of a Roman empress, wife of Trajan.
Life
c.70: born in Nemausus
Between 74 and 86: Marriage to Trajan
97: Trajan adopted by Nerva as caesar
98: Death of Nerva; Trajan becomes emperor
Autumn 102?: Plotina receives the title of Augusta
112: First coins with the legend Plotina Augusta
117: Death of Trajan; there is no will, but Plotina ensures the accession of Hadrian
123 or later: death
Plotina is buried next to her husband in the pedestal of the Column of Trajan
Consecrated as Diva Plotina; in Nemausus, Hadrian dedicates a basilica to her
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