Pompeia Plotina

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  • c. 70–c. 121/123 AD, Rome. Wrote in Latin. Wife of the emperor Trajan; used her position as empress to help secure the headship of the Epicurean school at Athens for a chosen successor regardless of Roman citizenship, and is honored in a surviving imperial rescript for this act of patronage -- a rare, direct instance of imperial-level support for the school's institutional continuity.

    c. 70–c. 121/123 AD, Rome. Wrote in Latin. Wife of the emperor Trajan; used her position as empress to help secure the headship of the Epicurean school at Athens for a chosen successor regardless of Roman citizenship, and is honored in a surviving imperial rescript for this act of patronage -- a rare, direct instance of imperial-level support for the school's institutional continuity.

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