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	Pomponia, Roman Republic Coins of, at WildWinds.com
		Browsing Roman Republic Coins of the family Pomponia
		Click here for the Pomponia page with thumbnail images.
		Draped bust of Hercules right, wearing lion skin, three pellets behind.
	www.wildwinds.com /coins/rsc/pomponia/i.html (503 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 492 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		POMPONIA GRAECINA, the wife of A. Plautius, was accused in the reign of Claudius of practising religious worship unauthorised by the state; but her husband Plautius, who was allowed, on account of his victories in Britain, to judge her, in accordance with the old Roman law, declared her innocent.
		She was related to Julia, the daughter of Drusus, and granddaughter of Pomponia, the daughter of Atticus ; and she lived forty years after the death of Julia, who was executed by Claudius at the instigation of Messalina.
		POMPONIA RUFINA, a Vestal virgin in the reign of Caracalla, put to death for violation of her vow of chastity.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2826.html (873 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Crypt of Lucina
		According to Tacitus, "Pomponia Graecina, a distinguished lady, wife of the Plautius who on his return from Britain received an ovation, was accused of some foreign superstition, and handed over to her husband's judicial decision.
		Following ancient precedent, he heard his wife's cause in the presence of kinsfolk, involving, as it did, her legal status and character, and he reported that she was innocent.
		The first of these discoveries was the tomb of a Pomponius Grekeinos, evidently a member of the family of Pomponia, and possibly her descendant; the inscription dates from about the beginning of the third century.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09410c.htm (415 words)

	Pomponia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pomponia was a Roman woman, who flourished in the first century BC and was an only sister to Roman Knight and Cicero’s friend Titus Pomponius Atticus.
		Pomponia and the elder Quintus divorced in later 45 BC or early 44 BC.
		According to Plutarch, Pomponia punished Philologus for his treachery with terrible punishments including forcing him to cut off pieces of his flesh, roasting the pieces and then eating them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pomponia (275 words)

	Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
		Pomponia could count on the faithfulness of those servants, and at the same time consoled herself with the thought that soon grains of truth would be in Caesar's house.
		Pomponia had not seen her, it is true, at meetings of confessors of the new faith; but she had heard from them that Acte had never refused them a service, and that she read the letters of Paul of Tarsus eagerly.
		The eyes of Pomponia and Lygia were filled with fresh tears; Aulus placed his hand on her head again, and after a while the soldiers, followed by the cry of little Aulus, who in defence of his sister threatened the centurion with his small fists, conducted Lygia to Caesar's house.
	www.4literature.net /Henryk_Sienkiewicz/Quo_Vadis/15.html (977 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pomponia suffered life with a hot-tempered and irritable husband with whom she was often angry.
		Pomponia was several years older than her husband and much wealthier.
		Time and again Pomponia demanded that Quintus recognize her position and her authority over the household, and he, either from insensitivity, ignorance, or perversity, chose to make household arrangements through his freedmen and slaves, instead of his wife.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=AGRW0365 (329 words)

	Pomponia Graecina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pomponia Graecina was a daughter of suffect consul Gaius Pomponius Graecinus and Asinia Pollionis filia.
		Pomponia married Aulus Plautius, a Roman General who in 43, led the Roman invasion of Britain and received later a military ovation.
		The archaeologist Battista de Rossi identifies Pomponia Graecina as Saint Lucina, the purported donor of the part of the catacombs where the inscriptions were found, and suggests that Lucina was Pomponia's baptismal name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pomponia_Graecina (673 words)

	Q Pomponius Musa
		, the Muse of Dancing - (Pomponia 17 and 18) Laureate head of Apollo with flower on stalk behind (17) or tortoise behind (18), Terpsichore standing right, holding lyre and plectrum (which she is said to have invented).
		One of the first things a person who would like to collect this series will discover, is the Erato coins are about 10 times as rare as all of the other pieces in the series.
		The reason being is each of the Muses has one attribute on the obverse of the coin, but Terpsichore has either a flower with stalk (same as Erato) or a tortoise.
	www.beastcoins.com /RomanRepublican/Q-Pomponia-Musa/QPomponiusMusa.htm (584 words)

	Ridge Reviews & Reflections
		Section XXXII notes: "Pomponia Graecina, a woman of illustrious birth and the wife of Plautius, who, on his return from Britain, entered the city with the pomp of an ovation, was accused of embracing the rites of a foreign superstition." (p.
		Tacitus goes on to speak of both her innocence and "the glory of her character." It is this couple Sienkiewicz recreates fictionally in beginning his book, assuming that the "foreign superstition" to which Tacitus refers is Christianity.
		Pomponia becomes the means for converting Lygia and eventually Vinicius through her faith.
	www.gettysburgsem.org /studies/re-views/taleof2classics.htm (570 words)

	QUO VADIS [Part 3]
		Let Pomponia meditate with Seneca or Cornurus over the question of what their great Logos is. Let them summon at once the shades of Xenophanes, Parmenides, Zeno, and Plato, who are as much wearied there in Cimmerian regions as a finch in a cage.
		Pomponia, embracing his neck with her arms, clung to him with all her strength, and her blue lips moved quickly while uttering some whispered phrase.
		Once more she threw her arms around Pomponia’s neck; then both went out to the cecus, and she took farewell of little Aulus, of the old Greek their teacher, of the dressing-maid who had been her nurse, and of all the slaves.
	www.pravmir.com /article_29.html (5690 words)

	sin título
		Rain leaked through the nest of the duck Pomponia that was very happy surrounded by her small children".
		Pomponia told him off; but his mother’s attitude made him even more insecure.(Pomponia and the narrator).
		The children will model and draw Monono, his little brothers and the duck Pomponia, after their works are done, they will tell what happened to Monono, using their own drawings.
	www.waece.org /webpaz_ingles/bloques/confi_si_mismo.htm (2745 words)

	Marta Sordi
		The official reason for the change was said to be her mourning for the killing of Tiberius' niece, Julia, the daughter of Drusus, .
		But Christianity's acceptance in Rome from its beginnings among the officialdom of imperial slaves and freedmen and among, as would seem to be the case of Pomponia Graecina members of the senatorial and equestrian aristocracy merits further study.
		Christianity spreads among the upper classes According to a chronicle by Tertullian ( V, 2), wrongly assumed to be an invention of Christian apologetics, the Emperor Tiberius proposed to the Senate in the year 35 that worship of Christ be recognized as legitimate.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/PETESENA.htm (1042 words)

	Morituri
		His friend Servilius, the husband of the gossipy matron Pomponia, sits beside him.The long-awaited match finally arrives.
		Through the espionage network of his friend Pomponia Aurelius learns that Chelidon had an affair with Rome’s most famous pantomime actress, the ravishing Nissa, who delights the audiences with her erotic shows at the theatre of Marcellus.
		The friendly craftsman tells him that Chelidon was actually saved from the scaffold by the lawyer Sergius Mauricus, who had then brought him to Rome along with some professional killers.
	kidslink.bo.cnr.it /irrsaeer/who/morituri.html (1653 words)

	Scipio Africanus
		The Cornelii were counted among the five major patrician families —the others being the Fabii, the Aemilii, the Claudii, and the Valerii — and at the time Scipio Africanus lived, the Scipiones were probably its most prominent branch.
		Scipio was the elder son of Publius Cornelius Scipio, praetor and consul, by his wife Pomponia, who was apparently of a prominently knightly and plebian family.
		Scipio was known to have visited the temple daily as he took dreams about gods and omens seriously.
	www.webspawner.com /users/dori1992 (1784 words)

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