Claudia Tisamenis
Claudia Tisamenis (Greek: Κλαυδία) was a Greek aristocratic woman that lived in the 2nd century in the Roman Empire.
Ancestry and family
[edit]Tisamenis was of Athenian descent. Her ancestry can be traced to the Athenian noble woman Elpinice (a half sister of statesman Cimon and daughter of politician Miltiades the Younger).[1] She had an ancestor four generations removed from her called Polycharmus. Polycharmus from 9/8 BC-22/23, could have served as an archon of Athens.[2] Her family bears the Roman family name Claudius. There is a possibility that a paternal ancestor of hers received Roman citizenship, from an unknown member of the Claudius gens.
Tisamenis was born to a distinguished and very rich family of consular rank.[3] She was the daughter of Roman senator Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes and the wealthy heiress Vibullia Alcia Agrippina.[1][4] Tisamenis had two brothers: the prominent Greek sophist Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes and Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodianus.[1] Her maternal grandparents were Claudia Alcia and Lucius Vibullius Rufus, while her paternal grandfather was Hipparchus and his unnamed wife.[4]
Her parents were uncle and niece,[4] her maternal grandmother being her father's sister.[4] Her maternal uncle Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus was archon of Athens in the years 99-100 [4][5] and her maternal cousin, Publius Aelius Vibullius Rufus was archon of Athens in 143-144.[4][5]
Life
[edit]According to the French historian Christian Settipani, Tisamenis was born about 100[6] in an unknown place in Greece. She spent her childhood travelling between Greece and Italy. Modern historians have argued that Tisamenis could have married a Greek aristocrat in Sparta from the Achaea Province.[7] The name of Tisamenis has been found as a testamentary disposition on an erection of a family statue-group in her marital home-city.[7] According to Settipani, Tisamenis married an unnamed Roman Aristocrat, by whom she had a daughter called Claudia (b. ca 120),[6] who might have been the grandmother of Roman Emperor Gordian I.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Pomeroy, The murder of Regilla: a case of domestic violence in antiquity
- ^ Day, An economic history of Athens under Roman domination p. 238
- ^ Wilson, Herodes Atticus, Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece p.p. 349-350
- ^ a b c d e f Graindor, Un milliardaire antique p. 29
- ^ a b "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b c fr:Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale (Christian Settipani)|Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale, 2000
- ^ a b Cartledge, Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: a tale of two cities p. 175
Sources
[edit]- Day, J., An economic history of Athens under Roman domination, Ayers Company Publishers, 1973
- Graindor, P., Un milliardaire antique, Ayers Company Publishers, 1979
- Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale, 2000
- Cartledge, P., Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: a tale of two cities, Routledge, 2002
- Wilson, N.G., Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece, Routledge 2006
- Pomeroy, S.B., The murder of Regilla: a case of domestic violence in antiquity, Harvard University Press, 2007
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110716083759/http://www.sleepinbuff.com/13history.pdf