Cluentia (wife of Aulus Aurius Melinus)
Cluentia was the Italian race of Cluentier entstammende, in the 1st century. Living nobles.
Cluentia was a daughter of Aulus Cluentius Habitus, a respected man from Larinum in Samnium , and his wife Sassia. When her father died in 88 BC Cluentia was already an adult and soon afterwards married her relative Aulus Aurius Melinus . After two years of marriage, however, she divorced her husband because her own mother Sassia fell in love with him and wanted to marry him.
literature
- Friedrich Münzer : Cluentius 6 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 1, Stuttgart 1900, column 113.
Remarks
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SURNAME | Cluentia |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wife of Aulus Aurius Melinus |
DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC Chr. |
DATE OF DEATH | 1st century BC Chr. |