Veturia
Veturia is the mother of the Roman legendary figure Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus , who was banished from Rome and then defected to the Volscore . He started a war against his own hometown, which he broke off only at the request of his mother Veturia. He led the Volsk army back home, but was slain there as a traitor. The legend takes place at the beginning of the 5th century BC. Chr.
Veturia also appears in the series of the Nine Good Heroines as a representative of paganism.
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- Dionysius of Halicarnassus Antiquitates Romanae 8.39-54
- Livy Ab urbe condita 2,40,1-12
- Plutarch Coriolanus 33-36
- Valerius Maximus Facta et dicta memorabilia 5,4,1
literature
- Christian Müller: Veturia. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01470-3 , column 154 f.
- Bernhard Kytzler : women of antiquity. From Aspasia to Zenobia . Artemis, Munich & Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-7608-1224-4 , pp. 171–172.
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