The list below includesRoman women who were notable for their family connections, or their sons or husbands, or their own actions. In the earlier periods, women came to the attention of (later) historians either as poisoners of their husbands (a very few cases), or as wives, daughters, and mothers of great men such as Scipio Africanus. In later periods, women exercised or tried to exercise political power either through their husbands (as didFulvia andLivia Drusilla) or political intrigues (as didClodia andServilia), or directly (as didAgrippina the younger and later Roman empresses). Even theSeveran dynasty from the beginning to the end was completely dominated by four powerful and calculating women.

Name	Image	Dates	Details
Rhea Silvia		c. 700s BC	AVestal Virgin who got pregnant byMars, she gave birth to the twinsRomulus and Remus, who went on to found the city ofRome.
Hersilia		c. 700s BC	Wife ofRomulus and following theabduction of the Sabine women, helped end the conflict between the Romans andSabines.
Tarpeia		c. 700s BC	The daughter of the Roman commanderSpurius Tarpeius. She was aVestal Virgin who betrayed Rome to theSabines at the time oftheir women's abduction.
Lucretia (Queen of Rome)		c. 700s–600s BC	The second wife of Roman KingTitus Tatius.
Tanaquil		died c. 575 BC	Tanaquil came from a powerfulEtruscan family and was Queen of Rome through her marriage toLucius Tarquinius Priscus, Rome's fifth King.
Tarquinia		c. 600s–500s BC	Tarquinia was the daughter of Rome's fifth King,Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, and his wifeTanaquil.
Tullia Major		died c. 535 BC	First daughter of kingServius Tullius. She was assassinated by her husband and younger sister.
Tullia Minor		died after 509 BC	Second daughter of kingServius Tullius. She killed her husband, sister, and father, and became the last Queen of Rome. She and her family were exiled after Lucretia's suicide and the overthrow of the monarchy.
Lucretia		died c. 510 BC	Lucretia was a noblewoman whose rape and eventual suicide led to the overthrow of the Roman monarchy.

• Valeria, the name of the women of theValeria gens
  • Valeria, first priestess ofFortuna Muliebris in 488 BC^[1]
• Aemilia Tertia (с. 230 – 163 or 162 BC), wife ofScipio Africanus and mother ofCornelia (see below), noted for the unusual freedom given her by her husband, her enjoyment of luxuries, and her influence as role model for elite Roman women after the Second Punic War. Her date of birth, marriage, and death are all unknown. Her husband's birth and death dates are also not known precisely, but approximated.
• Cornelia (с. 190s – c. 115 BC), virtually deified by Roman women as a model of feminine virtues andStoicism, but never officially deified. The first Roman woman, whose approximate birth year and whose year of death is known, thanks to a law she caused to be passed to allow her granddaughter to inherit.
• Publilia (1st century BC), the name of a woman of the gens Publilius. She was killed in 154 BC for poisoning her husband, the consul of the preceding year.
• Julia (daughter of Caesar) (c. 76 BC – August 54 BC), daughter ofJulius Caesar and fourth wife ofPompey the Great.
• Clodia (wife of Metellus), an aristocratic woman attacked byCicero in his speechPro Caelio (56 BC). She was the sister of Cicero's enemyPublius Clodius Pulcher and is identified by some with the "Lesbia" ofCatullus's poems.
• Fulvia. A woman married in turn to three prominent late republican politicians:Publius Clodius Pulcher (died 52 BC),Gaius Scribonius Curio (died 49 BC), andMark Antony (consul 44 BC). She is famous for stabbing the tongue ofCicero's severed head in 43 BC with her golden hairpin.

Name	Image	Dates	Details
Cornelia		c. 190s – c. 115 BC	Daughter ofPublius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the hero of theSecond Punic War. She was the mother of theGracchi brothers, and the mother-in-law ofScipio Aemilianus.
Servilia		100 BC – after 42 BC	The mother of Roman politicianBrutus and a lover ofJulius Caesar, whom her son would later assassinate.

• Agrippina the Elder (c. 14 BC – AD 33), wife ofGermanicus, granddaughter ofAugustus, mother of emperorCaligula andAgrippina the Younger (below)
• Agrippina the Younger (1st century), niece and wife of emperorClaudius, mother of emperorNero; held up as a bad example.
• Aurelia (1st century BC), mother ofJulius Caesar
• Antonia the Elder (1st century BC), grandmother of EmperorNero
• Antonia Minor (1st century BC – 1st century AD), mother of EmperorClaudius andGermanicus, favorite niece ofAugustus Caesar, considered a role model for women in the Roman Empire after she refused to remarry and spent the rest of her life raising her children and grandchildren.
• Atia, mother ofAugustus andOctavia Minor
• Claudia Pulchra, wife ofPublius Quinctilius Varus
• Claudia Marcella, nieces ofCaesar Augustus
• Domitia Lepida the Elder, aunt of EmperorNero
• Domitia Lepida the Younger, sister of the following, Mother of the EmpressValeria Messalina
• Domitia Longina, wife of EmperorDomitian
• Domitia Calvilla, mother of EmperorMarcus Aurelius
• Domitia Paulina,Aelia Domitia Paulina,Julia Serviana Paulina, female relatives of EmperorHadrian
• Julia the Elder, daughter of Augustus
• Julia Livia (1st century), granddaughter of EmperorTiberius
• Livia Drusilla (1st century BC), wife of Tiberius Claudius Nero, mother of the EmperorTiberius, and then wife ofAugustus Caesar.
• Livilla (1st century), granddaughter of Livia
• Valeria Messalina, EmperorClaudius' wife, notorious for her promiscuity.
• Octavia the Younger, sister ofCaesar Augustus and fourth wife ofMarcus Antonius (Mark Antony)
• Plautia Urgulanilla, EmperorClaudius' first wife
• Scribonia, second wife ofAugustus and mother of his only legitimate child (whom she apparently ignored until her exile)
• Vipsania Agrippina, first wife ofTiberius and the only one he loved
• Vibia Sabina, wife of Hadrian
• Vipsania Julia (19 BC – c. AD 29), granddaughter of Augustus
• Claudia Metrodora (1st century AD), Greco-Roman public benefactor, lived onKos.
• Lucilla, (2nd century AD) Roman Empress, failed in her coup attempt on brotherCommodus.
• Aquilia Severa (3rd century),Vestal Virgin and wife ofElagabalus.
• Clodia (1st century BC), possiblyCatullus'sLesbia
• Domitia Decidiana, wife of Roman GeneralGnaeus Julius Agricola and mother-in-law to historianTacitus.

Name	Image	Dates	Details
Argentaria Polla		c. 1st Century AD	Patroness ofMartial andStatius. She was also the wife of theRoman poetLucan.
Procula		c. 1st Century AD	Wife ofPontius Pilate, the fifth governor of theRoman province of Judaea, who presided overthe trial of Jesus and later orderedJesus' crucifixion.
Pomponia Graecina		died c. 83 AD	The wife ofAulus Plautius, the general who led theRoman conquest of Britain. She was speculated to have been an earlyChristian, and is a saint honoured by theRoman Catholic Church.
Julia Domna		160 – 217 AD	Wife ofSeptimius Severus and Mother ofCaracalla andGeta.
Julia Maesa		before 160 AD –c. 224 AD	Grandmother ofElagabalus andAlexander Severus. Best known for her plotting the restoration of the Severan dynasty to the Roman throne after the assassination ofCaracalla and the usurpation of the throne byMacrinus.
Julia Soaemias		180 – 222 AD	Mother of emperorElagabalus, she was her son's regent. After an uprising led by the Praetorian Guard, she entered the camp to protect her son, but was slain along with Elagabalus by thePraetorian Guard in 222.
Julia Avita Mamaea		after 180 –235	Mother of Roman emperorAlexander Severus and remained one of his chief advisors throughout his reign. She was killed in 235 by rebel soldiers along with her son.
Ulpia Severina		c. 3rd Century AD	Wife of emperorAurelian. After Aurelian's death, she briefly ruled the Roman Empire, until the new emperor,Marcus Claudius Tacitus was chosen by the Senate.
Galla Placidia		388–389 or 392–393 – 450	Daughter of theRoman emperorTheodosius I. Mother to emperorValentinian III. She becamequeen consort toAtaulf,king of the Visigoths from 414 until his death in 415, and briefly empress consort toConstantius III in 421.

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