| 词条 | Valeria (wife of Sulla) |
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Valeria was the fifth wife of two-term consul and Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla. She was the daughter of Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger and a sister of the consul of 53 BC, Marcus Valerius Messalla Rufus. An "alert young divorcee", as Ronald Syme writes,[1] she attracted the notice of Sulla at the theatre, and he married her towards the end of his life. When he retired from public life to a villa in southern Italy, she accompanied him. She was pregnant at the time of his death in 78 BC and had a daughter, Cornelia Postuma, some months later. Plutarch calls her a sister of the orator Quintus Hortensius, but this is a mistake probably arising from the fact that the sister of Hortensius married a Valerius Messala.[2]References
Footnotes1. ^Review of Potitus Valerius Messalla Consul Suffect 29 B.C. by Arthur E. Gordon, in Journal of Roman Studies, 45 (1955), p. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/298755?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents 155]. {{DEFAULTSORT:Valeria}}2. ^Plutarch, Sulla 35, 37; Wilhelm Drumann, Geschichte Roms, vol. ii. p. 508. (cited in Smith) 6 : Ancient Roman women|1st-century BC Romans|1st-century BC Roman women|Valerii|Year of birth unknown|Year of death unknown |
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