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Family background and early life. Paulina was a member of the plebeian gens Lollia. [4] [5] Paulina was the second daughter of Marcus Lollius with Volusia Saturnina, while her elder sister was Lollia Saturnina. [6] Her cognomen "Paulina" probably derived from her maternal grandmother Nonia Polla.
- 38 AD (six months)
- Volusia Saturnina
Dec 28, 2016 · Julia Agrippina, also known as Agrippina the Younger, had ordered the suicide of Lollia Paulina, her formal rival. She instructed a colonel in the Roman guard to supervise the suicide then bring back the head so she could verify Paulina’s demise. But the head’s facial features were distorted, so Agrippina had to find another way to confirm ...
Lollia Paulina (fl. 38–39 ce) Roman noblewoman and empress. Reigned as empress, 38–39 ce; daughter of M. Lollius (consul in 21 bce); married Memmius Regulus; married Caligula (12–41), Roman emperor (divorced). Known for her dazzling beauty, Lollia Paulina was taken from her husband Memmius Regulus by Caligula and briefly reigned as his ...
Jun 29, 2023 · The three women Tacitus places in contest for the ailing, fifty-eight-year-old emperor’s hand in marriage are carefully differentiated. Lollia Paulina is glamorous and girly; Aelia Paetina, stable and motherly; Agrippina, ambitious and masculine. They are contrasted not only in their literal competition but also in their very being.
The chief competition was between Lollia Paulina and Julia Agrippina, his own niece. The importance of Lollia Paulina appears later from the speech of Claudius summarized by Tacitus, Annals, XII, 22. Lollia, as Tacitus calls her, came from a great family and possessed immense wealth. Agrippina never forgave her rival and soon had her murdered.
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Mar 24, 2020 · The ancient dental identification began with the Agrippina and the Lollia Paulina case in the year 49 AD. It was determined that Lollia's teeth had some distinctive features which were used to identify her after her death [ 1 ].
Apr 2, 2019 · This jewel of the sea—matching Pliny’s description of Caligula’s pearl-bedecked third wife, Lollia Paulina—“glittered and shone like the sun” at the height of the Roman Empire. Related ...
