| 词条 | Aconia Fabia Paulina |
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Aconia Fabia Paulina[1] (died c. 384) was an aristocratic woman and one of the last pagan Romans who tried to save the Roman religion from decline.{{citation needed|date=November 2011|reason=Was it actually declining?}} BiographyPaulina was the daughter of Fabius Aconius Catullinus Philomathius, a prominent aristocrat who held the offices of Praefectus urbi of Rome in 342-344 and was Consul in 349. In 344, Paulina married Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, a prominent exponent of the Roman senatorial aristocracy, an important imperial officer and a member of several pagan circles; Paulina was initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries and to the Lernian mysteries of Dionysus and Demeter, was devoted to several female deities, such as Ceres, Hecate (of whom she was hierophant), the Magna Mater (as a tauroboliata) and Isis. Praetextatus and Paulina owned at least two houses. The first was on the Esquiline Hill, probably situated between via Merulana and viale del Monte Oppio in Rome, where the modern Palazzo Brancaccio stands ({{coord|41|53|39.83|N|12|29|59.09|E|type:landmark_region:IT-RM_source:enwiki |display=inline}}). The garden around the palace, the so-called Horti Vettiani,[2] extended to the modern Roma Termini railway station. Archaeological investigations in this area brought out several discoveries related to Praetextatus' family. Among them was the base of a statue dedicated to Coelia Concordia, one of the last Vestal Virgins, who had erected a statue in honour of Praetextatus after his death (384); in exchange for this honour, which caused the reprobation of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus on the basis that the Vestals never erected statues to men, Paulina dedicated a statue to Concordia.[3] They also had a house on the Aventine Hill.[4] On the base of the funerary monument to Pratextatus,[5] Paulina had a poem composed by herself inscribed, which celebrated her husband and their love, a poem probably derived by the oration read by Paulina at her husband's funeral.[4] This poem is cited by Jerome in a letter in which he mocks Praetextatus, claiming he was not in paradise but in hell.[6] Paulina died shortly after her husband. Their son or daughter dedicated them a funerary monument with statues in their house.[7] Notes1. ^She is called Aconia Fabia Paulina in {{CIL|6|1779}}, Fabia Aconia Paulina in {{CIL|6|1780}}, Fabia Paulina in {{CIL|6|2145}} or Paulina in {{CIL|6|1779}} and in Symmachus' letter I.48). 2. ^Musei Capitolini {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091204235426/http://www.museicapitolini.org/percorsi/percorsi_per_sale/museo_del_palazzo_dei_conservatori/sale_degli_horti_tauriani_vettiani |date=2009-12-04 }} 3. ^{{CIL|6|2145}}. 4. ^1 Kahlos 5. ^{{CIL|6|1799}}. 6. ^Jerome, letter 23. 7. ^{{CIL|6|1777}}. BibliographyPrimary sources
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