Tao Te Ching
Faustina
(Annia Galeria, Faustina the Younger)
130 – 176 CE
Mater Castrorum
Although married to Marcus Aurelius for 30 years, bearing 13 of children, and called by him “so obedient and affectionate a wife;” Faustina was still subject to vicious gossip, called “as faithless as she was beautiful,” and the Augustan History described adulteries with gladiators, sailors, and aristocrats. Their son, Commodus who became the next emperor was know as “a gladiator’s gift to Faustian.” The daughter of Emperor Antoninus Pius and cousin to Emperor Hadrian; Aurelius called her “Mother of the Camp” and she accompanied him on his military campaigns. The soldiers loved her and her devoted husband gave her divine honors after she died including building in her memory one of the Forum’s most beautiful temples, placing her statue in Rome’s Temple of Venus, and establishing in her name a fund for the education and support of orphaned girls.
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Eastern Han 漢朝 (25 – 220 CE)Quotes by Faustina
Quotes about Faustina (2 quotes)
“Faustina has been as much celebrated for her gallantries as for her beauty. The grave simplicity of the philosopher was ill calculated to engage her wanton levity, or to fix that unbounded passion for variety... Marcus thanked the gods for bestowing on him a wife so faithful, so gentle, and of such a wonderful simplicity of manners. The obsequious Senate, at his earnest request, declared her a goddess.”
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“Faustina whose pretty face has come down to us in many a sculptured portrait, may not have relished sharing bed and board with incarnate philosophy; she was a level creature, who longed for a gayer life than his [Marcus Aurelius’] sober nature could give her.”
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