Pompeia Plotina

Reece Period attributed: Period 5

Member of the The Adoptive Emperors dynasty.

Coins for this issuer were issued from 112 until 117.

Pompeia Plotina was born in Gaul around AD 70. She married Trajan sometime before the death of Nerva, but had no children. She was a model empress, though she supposedly encouraged Hadrian to marry against Trajan’s niece against her husband’s wishes.

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• Dbpedia: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pompeia_Plotina
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeia_Plotina

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• Preferred label: Pompeia Plotina
• Full names:
  • Pompeia Plotina
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• Definition: Pompeia Plotina, (died 121/122) was a Roman Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Trajan. She was renowned for her interest in philosophy, and her virtue, dignity and simplicity. She was particularly devoted to the Epicurean philosophical school in Athens, Greece. She is often viewed as having provided Romans with fairer taxation, improved education, assisted the poor, and created tolerance in Roman society. Her full name was probably Pompeia Plotina Claudia Phoebe Piso.
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• Birth place: Hispania, Escacena del Campo
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  • Trajan
• Other title(s):
  • Empress of Rome
• Came After:
  • Vibia Sabina
• Came before:
  • Domitia Longina
• Subjects on wikipedia:
  • Trajan
  • 2nd-century Romans
  • Deified Roman people
  • 120s deaths
  • 1st-century Romans
  • 1st-century Roman women
  • Hadrian
  • Claudii
  • Augustae
  • Roman empresses
  • 2nd-century Roman women
  • 1st-century births
  • Pompeii (Romans)