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  Pompeia Plotina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pompeia Plotina Claudia Phoebe Piso or Pompeia Plotina or Plotina (died c.
Plotina was born in Nemausus (modern Nimes) in Gaul during the reign of Nero.
Trajan and Plotina became the guardians of the future Emperor Hadrian, when Hadrian, at age 14, lost his father, who was first-cousin, once-removed of Trajan.
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 Trajan
In his efforts to win the affections of Roman society Trajan was aided by his wife Plotina, who was as simple as her husband, benevolent, pure in character, and entirely unambitious.
The hold which Trajan acquired over the people was no less firm than that which he maintained upon the army and the senate.
Plotina asserted the adoption, and it was readily and most fortunately accepted, if not believed, as a fact.
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 Trajan Decius
His wife, Pompeia Plotina, is reported to have said, when she entered the imperial palace in Rome for the first time, that she hoped she would leave it the same person she was when she entered.
Plotina, Marciana, and Matidia, for example, were all honored on the arch at Ancona along with Trajan.
Rumor had it that Plotina and Matidia were responsible for the choice, made when the emperor was already dead.
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 Pompeia Plotina --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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It occupies the site of the Roman Alba Pompeia, which was probably founded by Pompeius Strabo (consul, 89 BC) when he constructed the road from Aquae Statiellae (Acqui Terme) to Augusta Taurinorum (Turin).
The original settlement (5th century BC) on the site of the present suburb of Lodi Vecchio obtained Roman citizenship in 89 BC as Laus Pompeia.
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I think that Tacitus was the son (or half-son) of Nerva (a form of 'Nero'), and a cousin of Trajan (and thereby also a nephew of Otho).
Suetonius was the son of Arrius Piso's daughter Claudia Phoebe Pompeia Plotina Calpurnia Pisa (Piso).
When Arrius Piso's daughter Claudia Phoebe Pompeia Plotina married the Emperor Trajan, the family allowed her to write herself into 'The Book of Life'.
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 Emperor Hadrian
Trajan and his wife, Pompeia Plotina, had no children, and were surrogate parents to the child Hadrian.
The following day his adoption of Hadrian was announced by Plotina and Attianus, the praetorian prefect who had earlier been Hadrian's guardian, with some question whether Trajan had indeed performed the act or whether it was posthumous, thanks to his widow.
In 121, at the request of Plotina, who was deeply interested in the Epicurean School at Athens, he permits the presidency of the school to be assumed by someone who is not a Roman citizen, thereby increasing the pool of potential candidates substantially.
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 The Roman Principate: The Adoptive Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
One of his female relatives married Hadrianus, which would provide latter an excellent link to be adopted shortly before Traianus' death in 117.
A lot of historians say that Traianus' wife Pompeia Plotina had a significant hand in this.
This theory has been elaborated and "literised" by M. Yourcenar in her famous fictive memoirs of Hadrianus.
www.societasviaromana.org /Collegium_Historicum/principate4.php?lang=de   (2470 words)

  
 Biographies: Trajan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Before his accession, Trajan had married Pompeia Plotina, to whom he remained devoted.
As the marriage was childless, he took into his household his cousin Hadrian, who became a favourite of Plotina.
Trajan was a much more active ruler than Nerva had been during his short reign.
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 Roman Emperors - DIR Trajan
He then married a lady from Nemausus (Nimes) in Gallia Narbonensis, Pompeia Plotina, was quaestor about 78 and praetor about 84.
A significant omission was a temple; this circumstance was later rectified by Hadrian, who built a large temple to the deified Trajan and Plotina.
Her daughter Matidia became Augusta upon her mother's death, and in her turn was deified in 119.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ulpia Marciana
She was the first sister of a Roman Emperor to receive this title.
Marciana first didn't accept this, but her sister-in-law the Empress Pompeia Plotina insisted her to have this title.
Trajan deified her and nominated 2 cities in her honour, Marciana and Marciana Ulpia Trajna in 2 Roman Provinces.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ulpia_Marciana   (142 words)

  
 Los-Nummer 00467   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pompeia Plotina wurde wohl vor dem Jahr 70 n.
Zusammen mit Matidia, der Nichte des Kaisers, begleitete sie die Asche des Traianus nach Rom zurück, wo sie selbst nach dem Jahre 123 n.
Drapierte Büste der Plotina mit Diadem und langem, auf den Nacken herabfallendem Zopf rechts.
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 Pompeius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pompeia), known in English as Pompey, is the nomen of the gens Pompeia, an important family during the late republic period of ancient Rome from the Italian region of Picenum, which lies between the Apennines and the Adriatic.
The name may refer to any person bearing it, with a list of the most famous below:
Pompeia Plotina, wife of the Roman Emperor Trajan
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 imperium-romanum.com - Personen - Kaiser - Trajan
Auch seine Gattin Plotina wird dabei mit positiven Eigenschaften überhäuft.
Die Unzufriedenheit unter den bisherigen Amtsinhabern hatte in einigen Provinzen zu einem Finanzchaos geführt.
Seine Frau Pompeia Plotina kam aus Nemausus (Nimes) in Gallien und wurde um 70 geboren.
www.imperiumromanum.com /personen/kaiser/traianus_04.htm   (467 words)

  
 Hadrian
He was on even better terms with the empress, Pompeia Plotina.
Years later, his close ties with Trajan's wife would come to help him a great deal.
They wondered if Trajan really adopted Hadrian or if Plotina simply forged the will.
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 The Detective and the Toga: Novels in English
We thought Shakespeare laid on the straight dope about what really went down on the Ides of March, but like Josephine Tey, Irwin has his own version.
Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Marcus Antonius, Pompeia, Brutus and Cassius appear.
Irwin's prescient dedication against Mussolini and Hitler must be the only one of its kind.
histmyst.org /english.html   (4599 words)

  
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emperor in his youth; Pompeia Plotina, the wife of Trajan; Faustina, senior; Manlia Scantilla and Didia Clara,the wife and daughter of the unfortunate emperor who preceded Septimus Severusand the lovely head of Antonia, daughter of Octavia and Mark Anthony.
The bust of Pompeia Plotina, the wife of Trajan, is a noble and womanly head.
The hair, which is dressed high on the fore- head, impairs the natural beauty and dignity of the countenance, but this style, introduced by Julia, the daughter of Titus, was modified by Pompeia and abolished by the succeeding Empress Sabina, the wife of Hadrian.
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 emperadores
su Esposa fue Pompeia Plotina gobernó del 98 al 117 en el que murio, tambien como Nerva de un ataque, en Selinos, Asiamenor, recibió sepultura al pie de la columna que mandó erigir y que es conocida con el nombre de Columna Trajana
A la muerte de Nerva Hadriano quiso ser el primero en poner en conocimiento de Trajano tal hecho, lo cual consiguio.Tuvo varios cargos militares y fué portegido de la emperatriz Plotina lo cual le serivió para alcanzar el poder.
Gobernó del 117 al 138, tuvo como esposa a Vivia Sabina y murió a causa de una enfermedad.Este Emperador fué el primero cuyo busto fue representado con barba
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