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Cornelia
2nd century BC Roman noblewoman, mother of the Gracchi
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 190 BCE
- Died
- 110 BCE
- Place of birth
- Ancient Rome
- Sex or gender
- female
- Father
- Scipio Africanus
- Mother
- Aemilia Tertia
- Sibling
- Publius Cornelius Scipio, Lucius Cornelius Scipio, Cornelia Africana Major, Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio
- Present in work
- The Divine Comedy
- Occupation
- writer
- Citizenship
- Ancient Rome
- Awards
- honorific statue
- depicted by
- Cornelia mother of the Gracchi
- described by source
- Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Pauly–Wissowa, A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country, Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome
- different from
- Saint Cornelia of Africa, Cornelia Africana Major
- family
- Cornelii Scipiones
- gens
- Cornelia gens
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Latin
- name in native language
- Cornelia
- nomen gentilicium
- Cornelia
- notable work
- Fragments of Cornelia’s letter
- number of children
- 12
- time period
- Middle Roman Republic
- writing language
- Latin
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