Plotina

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Plotina, a portrait type created after coin images around 112. Vatican Museums (Inv. 240)
In honor of Plotina 112 embossed Sesterz .

Pompeia Plotina (* before 70; † after January 1, 123) was the wife of the Roman emperor Trajan .

Plotina came from Nemausus , today's Nîmes in southern France, where Hadrian later had a basilica built for her. She was the daughter of an otherwise unknown Lucius Pompey. Her living conditions prior to her wedding to Trajan are not fully known. The two are likely to have married before 86, from 112 coins with Plotina's image were minted. She probably had some influence on her husband's decisions and was the one at the imperial court who strongly advocated Hadrian as Trajan's successor. Hadrian's adoption by the emperor, which was necessary to legitimize him as his successor, was disapproved by part of the senate.

The historian Cassius Dio reports the following sequence of events after Trajan's death in the city of Selinus in Asia Minor : Plotina initially withheld the death of her husband from August 8 to 11, 117. She sent a courier with the adoption certificate dated August 9 the Senate to Rome. She wrote the text by hand because her husband was allegedly unable to write due to illness. Only on August 11 did she announce her husband's death. Hadrian was accepted as the new emperor, and Plotina brought the ashes of her deceased husband to Rome. She herself died five years later.

literature

  • François Kirbihler: Plotina (Pompeia) . In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Vol. 5, part 2, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-271-07399-0 , pp. 1071-1075.
  • Bernhard Kytzler : women of antiquity. From Aspasia to Zenobia. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf et al. 2000, ISBN 3-7608-1224-4 , pp. 136-138.
  • Hildegard Temporini : The women at Trajan's court. A contribution to the position of the Augustae in the Principate. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-082156-7 , pp. 10–183 (reprint of the Berlin et al. 1979 edition).

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SURNAME Plotina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of the Roman Emperor Trajan
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century
PLACE OF BIRTH Nîmes
DATE OF DEATH after 122