{"id":42443,"date":"2018-09-14T22:10:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T20:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/bust-of-empress-faustina-the-elder\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T19:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T17:44:39","slug":"bust-of-empress-faustina-the-elder","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/bust-of-empress-faustina-the-elder\/","title":{"rendered":"Bust of Empress Faustina the Elder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A marble bust of Faustina the Elder (<em>Faustina Major<\/em>) &#8211; the wife of Emperor <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/antoninus-pius\/\">Antoninus Pius<\/a> (138-161 CE). The bust is in the Capitoline Museums in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a>. The Empress died in the early period of her husband&#8217;s rule &#8211; 140 CE.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The death of Faustina was a shock to Antoninus. The emperor decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/honor\/\">honor<\/a> her: the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-republic\/roman-offices\/roman-senate\/\">senate<\/a> recognized her as a deity, and on the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-architecture\/roman-buildings\/forum-romanum\/\">Roman Forum<\/a><\/em> the Temple of Faustina was erected. A lot of statues of gold and silver were created and coins with her image and words <em>DIVA FAVSTINA<\/em> were minted.<\/p>\n<p>Also in her honor, the ruler has created a new charity organization <em>Puellae Faustinianae<\/em> (&#8220;Girls of Faustina&#8221;), whose main task was to support orphans and poor children throughout <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-provinces\/roman-italy\/\">Italy<\/a>. Support was mainly based on giving away <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/eating-habits-of-romans\/\">food<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/education-of-ancient-romans\/\">education<\/a>. In Rome, this type of activity was referred to as <em>alimenta<\/em>. Its origins should be seen under rule of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/nerwa\/\">Nerva<\/a>, and the improvements and organization under <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/trajan\/\">Trajan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40590,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[61],"class_list":["post-42443","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-artifact"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/42443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/42443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=42443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}