Manlia Scantilla
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| Manlia Scantilla | |||||||||
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 Coin featuring Manlia Scantilla | |||||||||
| Roman empress | |||||||||
| Tenure | Three months in 193 | ||||||||
| Spouse | Emperor Didius Julianus | ||||||||
| Issue | Didia Clara | ||||||||
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Manlia Scantilla (fl. 193)[1] was a Roman woman who lived in the second century. She was very briefly Roman Empress as wife to the Roman emperor Didius Julianus.[2] Her name indicates that she was born into the gens Manlia, which if correct, indicates an illustrious patrician ancestry.
Manlia Scantilla married the senator Didius Julianus before his succession. Around 153, she bore Julianus a daughter and only child, Didia Clara, who was known for her beauty.
Her husband became emperor on 28 March 193 (known as "Year of the Five Emperors").[3] On that day, Scantilla and her daughter were awarded the title of Augusta by decree of the Roman Senate.[4] Scantilla enjoyed her title and status for less than three months because Julianus was killed on 1 June 193. The new emperor, Septimius Severus, removed her status and title as Augusta, but gave Scantilla and her daughter the former emperor's body for burial.[5][6] The two women buried Julianus in a tomb alongside his great-grandfather, outside of Rome. Within a month of Severus' accession to the throne, Scantilla died in obscurity. The fate of Didia Clara is unknown.
References
[edit]- ^ Woodward, A. M. (1961). "The Coinage of Didius Julianus and His Family". The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society. 1: 71–90. JSTOR 42662307.
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- ^ Kleiner, Diana E. E. (1981). "Second-Century Mythological Portraiture : Mars and Venus". Latomus. 40 (3): 512–544. JSTOR 41532142.
- ^ Wagner, Cherryl Ann (1969). The biography of Didius Julianus in the 'Historia Augusta' (Thesis). OCLC 495464031. ProQuest 302414700.[page needed]
- ^ Varner, Eric R. (2001). "Portraits, Plots, and Politics: 'Damnatio memoriae' and the Images of Imperial Women". Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. 46: 41–93. doi:10.2307/4238780. JSTOR 4238780.
- ^ Varner, Eric R. (2004). "The Severans A.D. 193–235". Mutilation and Transformation. pp. 156–199. doi:10.1163/9789047404705_010. ISBN 978-90-474-0470-5. S2CID 244740239.
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