Domitilla the Elder

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Flavia Domitilla the Elder ( Latin Flavia Domitilla maior ; † before 69) was the wife of the Roman emperor Vespasian .

According to Suetonius , she only obtained Roman citizenship in a process in which Flavius ​​Liberalis from Ferentium , the clerk of a quaestor , assured that he was her father. Vespasian married her around the year 38. Domitilla the Elder was the mother of the younger Domitilla and the later emperors Titus and Domitian . She died before her husband became emperor. After her death Vespasian lived with Antonia Caenis .

literature

  • Rudolf Hanslik : Flavius ​​II. 21. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 574.
  • Hans-Werner Ritter: On the life story of Flavia Domitilla, Vespasian's wife. In: Historia . Volume 21, 1972, pp. 759-761.

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 3 .
personal data
SURNAME Domitilla the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flavia Domitilla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of the emperor Vespasian
DATE OF BIRTH before 25
DATE OF DEATH before 69