Fannia (wife of Titinius)

Fannia was a at the turn of the 2nd to the 1st century BC. Living members of the Roman plebeian family of the Fannier . She was from Minturnae .

Fannia had a bad reputation for being immoral. But since she was very rich, she was married by Gaius Titinius . When her husband rejected her again because of her unchastity, he tried to appropriate her dowry. Gaius Marius , who held his sixth consulate , had in 100 BC To decide between the quarreling couple and asked Titinius to return the dowry to his wife. Titinius refused, whereupon Marius announced the verdict that Fannia was guilty of adultery, but that her husband still had to give her the dowry because he had married her, although her vicious lifestyle was not unknown to him. According to the judgment of Marius, Fannia only had to pay a small fine. 88 BC She reciprocated by lovingly accommodating Marius, who was ostracized after Sulla's March on Rome , caught on the run and led to Minturnae, in her house.

literature

Friedrich Münzer .: Fannius 21). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 2, Stuttgart 1909, Sp. 1995.

Remarks

↑ Plutarch , Marius 38, 3-9 (Fannia's husband incorrectly referred to as Tinnius ); Valerius Maximus 8, 2, 3, cf. 1, 5, 5.

personal data
SURNAME	Fannia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	roman nobles
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	after 88 BC Chr.

[1] Plutarch , Marius 38, 3-9 (Fannia's husband incorrectly referred to as Tinnius ); Valerius Maximus 8, 2, 3, cf. 1, 5, 5.