Cornelia Fausta

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Cornelia Fausta (* before 86 BC), also: Fausta Cornelia , was a daughter of the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix and his wife Caecilia Metella .

Together with her twin brother Faustus Cornelius Sulla von Sulla, she was named after his outstanding luck, but was raised by his executor Lucius Licinius Lucullus after his death . Fausta was married to Gaius Memmius , from whom she lived in 55 or 54 BC. Was divorced; from the marriage she had a son, who was called Gaius Memmius like his father and probably with the suffect consul in 34 BC. Is to be identified. Cornelia Fausta married 54 BC. The then praetor Titus Annius Milo .

Fausta was in the patriarchal Roman society for their "immorality", i. H. probably their sexual permissiveness, disreputable. Among other things, she was said to have had a relationship with the historian Sallust , according to Varro .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 9. Cornelia [Fausta] . In: William Smith (Ed.): Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . tape 1 : Abaeus – Dysponteus . Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1870, p. 855 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ See for example Friedrich Münzer : Memmius 10 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XV, 1, Stuttgart 1931, Col. 618.
  3. ^ William Ramsay: Fausta Cornelia . In: William Smith (Ed.): Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . tape 2 : Ea'rinus, Fla'vius – Nyx . Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1870, p. 140 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Macrobius , Saturnalia 2.2.9; Horace , saturnalia 1 , 2, 64.
  5. ↑ Varro, Gell. 17.18.
personal data
SURNAME Cornelia Fausta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fausta Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of the Roman dictator Sulla
DATE OF BIRTH before 86 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 54 BC Chr.