Volusia Cornelia

Volusia Cornelia,[1] also known as Cornelia Volusia[2] was a Roman woman of Patrician status who lived in the late 1st century. She was the daughter of the senator Quintus Volusius Saturninus, suffect consul in 92.[3] She was born and raised in Rome. Her cognomen Cornelia, she inherited from paternal great-grandmother Cornelia Lentula, the daughter of the consul of 3 BC, Lucius Cornelius Lentulus[4] from the gens Cornelia.

  1. ^ Marzano, Roman Villas in Central Italy: A Social and Economic History, p. 196
  2. ^ Biographischer Index der Antike, p. 249
  3. ^ Rudolf Hanslik, "Volusia Q.f. Cornelia 23", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Supplement 9A, col. 1863
  4. ^ Levick, Tiberius the Politician, p. 53