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Book: Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome

Chapter: Cornelia

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.20013

Blurb:

(fl. mid-2nd century BC)

Cornelia is one of the most famous women from late Republican Rome. She was the daughter of Publius Scipio Africanus, and married another leading politician, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus. Two fragments of a letter attributed to Cornelia have been preserved in some of the manuscripts of Cornelius Nepos.

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