Sulpicia (fl. 113 BC) was the wife of Quintus Fulvius Flaccus and earned everlasting fame when she was determined to be the most chaste of all the Roman matrons.[2]
The daughter of Servius Sulpicius Paterculus, Sulpicia was one of one hundred Roman matrons who were candidates to dedicate the statue of Venus Verticordia ("Venus Changer of Hearts"), who was believed "to turn the minds of women from vice to virtue."[2] Using a method outlined in the Sibylline Books, ten were drawn by lot, and these examined to determine which was the purest and most virtuous. Judged the most chaste, it fell to Sulpicia to dedicate the statue.[3][4][5] The story was so well known in ancient authors that famed Renaissance author Giovanni Boccaccio included it in his book On Famous Women, fifteen hundred years later.[6]
The statue itself predates the temple in which it stood by over a hundred years, and so must originally have been dedicated someplace else—perhaps at the Temple of Venus Erycina on the Capitoline or the Temple of Venus Obsequens.[7]
Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac Dictorum Memorabilium libri IX (Nine Books of Memorable Deeds and Sayings), Henry J. Walker, trans., Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis (2004), ISBN0-87220-674-2.
L. Richardson, Jr., A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, Johns Hopkins University Press (1992).
April 11, 2024
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