Vespasia Polla

Vespasia Polla was the mother of the Roman emperor Vespasian and the grandmother of his successors Titus and Domitian .

Vespasia came from a knightly family from Nursia . Her father Vespasius Pollio was camp prefect , her brother reached the praetur . Her family's ancestors came from Vespasiae near Spoletum . Vespasia married the tax farmer Titus Flavius Sabinus , with whom she had three children, a daughter who died in childhood, and two sons, Sabinus and Vespasian . After the death of her husband, she remained unmarried.

Her son Sabinus was the first member of his family to be accepted into the Senate and was 62–68 city prefect of Rome . Vespasian followed in his footsteps and eventually became Roman Emperor 69. His ambition is said to have been aroused by the fact that his mother Vespasia sarcastically referred to him as "his brother's lackey".

literature

Vespasia Polla (V 300). In: Hermann Dessau , Paul von Rohden (ed.): Prosopographia Imperii Romani . 1st edition. Volume 3, Reimer, Berlin 1898, p. 407 ( online ).
Werner Eck : Vespasia Polla. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/2, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01487-8 , column 125.

Web links

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Remarks

^ Suetonius , Vespasian 1 , 2–3 ; 5.2 .

^ Suetonius, Vespasian 1,3 ; 2.2 .

personal data
SURNAME	Vespasia Polla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mother of the Roman emperor Vespasian and grandmother of his successors Titus and Domitian
DATE OF BIRTH	1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	1st century

[1] Suetonius , Vespasian 1 , 2–3 ; 5.2 .

[2] Suetonius, Vespasian 1,3 ; 2.2 .