CLA219H1 Lecture Notes - Gracchi, Marcus Caelius Rufus, Gaius Gracchus
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These are real figures but their portrayals are very biased, like most portrayals of women. Cornelia, mother of the gracchi, daughter of scipio africanus, bore 12 children of which only 3 survived (tiberius, gaius, sempronia), a univira. Roman naming consists of a given name, a clan name, and a nickname of sorts (tiberius sempronius gracchus), women just get the female version of the family name. Praenomen: the given name in the roman convention. Nomen gentile: is the clan / family name in the roman naming convention. Cognomen: the third name in the roman naming convention, a nickname of sorts. Cornelia was one of the women who is held as a pinnacle of virtue like the fictional. Sources portray her as very eloquent and well educated and known to have given her sons a good education. A statue of her from the julian era is remarkable because mortal women were not often portrayed in art.
