{"id":98022,"date":"2021-11-03T12:56:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T11:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=biografie&#038;p=98022"},"modified":"2022-07-15T22:23:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T20:23:07","slug":"pomponia-graecina","status":"publish","type":"biografie","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/pomponia-graecina\/","title":{"rendered":"Pomponia Graecina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_87 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Chapters<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/pomponia-graecina\/#pomponia-a-christian\" >Pomponia a Christian?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n    <div class=\"ramka_ze_zdjeciem float-right \"\n         style=\"\">\n\n        <div class=\"zdjecie\">\n            <img\n                class=\"ramka-ze-zdjeciem\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3-4.jpg\"\n                                alt=\"Danuta Stenka as Pomponia Graecina in the film Quo vadis (2001)\"\n                width=\"300\"\n                height=\"165\"\n               \n               \n            \/>\n\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3-4.jpg\"\n               rel=\"fancybox\"\n               title=\"Danuta Stenka as Pomponia Graecina in the film &#8220;Quo vadis&#8221; (2001).\">\n                <div class=\"iover\">\n                    <div class=\"zicon\">\n                        <i class=\"fa fa-search-plus\"><\/i>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"opis\">\n                                Danuta Stenka as Pomponia Graecina in the film &#8220;Quo vadis&#8221; (2001).            <\/div>\n        \n        \n    <\/div>\n    \n<p><em>Pomponia Graecina<\/em> was probably born in the first century CE, although the exact date is unknown. Her family connections are also not exactly known, although they can be partially reconstructed. Pomponia&#8217;s father was probably <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-republic\/roman-offices\/roman-consul\/\">consul<\/a> Gaius Pomponius Grecian. Graecina&#8217;s wife was Azynia, sister of Gaius Asinius Polllio. Due to these connections, Pomponia was related to the imperial family, because Azynia&#8217;s father was Gaius Asinius Gallus, who in the eighth year CE held the office of consul, and Azynia&#8217;s mother was Wipsania Agrippina, daughter of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/marek-wipsaniusz-agrypa\/\">Marcus Agrippa<\/a> and the first wife of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/tyberiusz\/\">Tiberius<\/a>, with whom she had a son, Drusus the Younger. Vispania&#8217;s half-sister was Agrippina the Elder, mother of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/cesarz-kaligula\/\">Emperor Caligula<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/agrypina-mlodsza\/\">Agrippina the Younger<\/a> became the mother of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/neron\/\">Nero<\/a> and the wife of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/klaudiusz\/\">Claudius<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before 65 CE, Pomponia married <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/aulus-plaucjusz\/\">Aulus Plautius<\/a>, a senator and chieftain who became famous for his conquest in\u00a0 43 CE <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/geografia\/prowincje-rzymskie\/spis-prowincji-rzymskich\/brytania-rzymska\/\">Britain<\/a> and served as its governor until CE 47. The son of Pomponia and Aulus was probably <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/aulus-plautius\/\">Aulus Plautius<\/a> the Younger, who was murdered on Nero&#8217;s orders after he had an affair with his mother, Agrippina, who encouraged her younger lover to remove <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/nero\/\">Nero<\/a> from power and take his place.<\/p>\n<p>When in CE 43 Pomponia&#8217;s friend and relative Julia Helena was condemned to death by her uncle, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/claudius\/\">Emperor Claudius<\/a>, probably as a result of the intrigues of the Empress <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/waleria-messalina\/\">Messalina<\/a>, Pomponia for forty years, until her death, wore mourning for her friend. She avoided punishment for this, probably due to her exquisite origin, as well as her husband&#8217;s military fame, which earned her a lot of prestige. <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/publiusz-korneliusz-tacyt\/\">Tacitus<\/a> writes that Pomponia&#8217;s long life was sad and unhappy, perhaps due to the tragic death of his son and other relatives related to the imperial family:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"center\">\n<p class=\"quote\">Pomponia was a woman destined to long life and to continuous grief: for after Julia,\u200b the daughter of Drusus, had been done to death by the treachery of Messalina, she survived for forty years, dressed in perpetual mourning  and lost in perpetual sorrow; and a constancy unpunished under the empire of Claudius became later a title to glory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"male3\">&#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/publius-cornelius-tacitus\/\">Tacitus<\/a><\/strong>, <em>Annales<\/em>, XIII.32<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 57, Pomponia was accused of professing &#8220;foreign superstition&#8221; that historians identify with <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/religia\/chrystianizacja-starozytnego-rzymu\/\">Christianity<\/a>, although in fact there were many cults in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a> religious and sects from different parts of the then ancient world. Her husband then became the head of the domestic court, which tried the accused and issued an acquittal:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"center\">\n<p class=\"quote\">Pomponia Graecina,\u200b a woman of high family, married to Aulus Plautius \u2014 whose ovation after the British campaign I recorded earlier\u200b &#8211; and now arraigned for alien superstition,\u200b was left to the jurisdiction of her husband.\u200b Following the ancient custom, he held the inquiry, which was to determine the fate and fame of his wife, before a family council, and announced her innocent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"male3\">&#8211; <strong>Tacitus<\/strong>, <em>Annales<\/em>, XIII.32<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pomponia finally died in 83 CE.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"pomponia-a-christian\"><\/span>Pomponia a Christian?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Inscriptions discovered in the catacombs of St. Callixtus in Rome suggest that members of the Pomponia family were in fact Christians. Archaeologist Giovanni Battista de Rossi, the discoverer of the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/catacombs-of-saint-callixtus\/\">catacombs of Saint Callixtus<\/a>, made the controversial thesis that Pomponia was actually Saint Lucy, who was supposed to live in the first century CE. Rossi claimed that he found in the catacombs he discovered, confirming that Pomponia founded the honour of the catacombs and that she was to be baptized by the name of Lucyna. Interestingly, Saint Lucy is associated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-legends\/\">legend<\/a> of two Roman soldiers, Processius and Martinian, who were the prison guards of Saints Peter and Paul. Both soldiers were to be converted by the apostles and were martyred for it. Their bodies were to be purchased by Saint Lucy and buried in her private cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40773,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_biografii":[180],"class_list":["post-98022","biografie","type-biografie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_biografii-women"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biografie\/98022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biografie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biografie"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biografie\/98022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_biografii","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_biografii?post=98022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}