In a potentially fake letter provided by Nepos, a person with this name asks a relative "when will our family stop behaving insanely?"
In a potentially fake letter provided by Nepos, a person with this name asks a relative "when will our family stop behaving insanely?" Plutarch writes how a man died to save a person with this name by deliberately killing a male, not a female, snake. Plutarch also claimed that the funeral for another person with this name was the first major occurrence of a eulogy given for a young woman. Due to Roman Republic naming conventions, the daughters of Scipio Africanus had this name, including the mother of Scipio Aemilianus' wife and possible killer, (*) Sempronia. As dictator, Sulla ordered that a future military hero divorce a woman with this name, the daughter of Sulla's rival Cinna. The most famous woman with this name was used by antebellum Americans as an example of the ideal republican mother because of her devotion to her two reform-minded tribune sons. For 10 points, what was the name of Julius Caesar's first wife and the mother of the Gracchus brothers?
In a potentially fake letter provided by Nepos, a person with this name asks a relative "when will our family stop behaving insanely?"
Cornelia [or Cornelia Scipionis Africana; or Cornelia Cinna Minor]