Charles-Antoine Coypel, Portrait of Adrienne Lecouvreur (early 1720s) showing the prominent 18th-century French actress as Cornelia Metella in Pierre Corneille's play The Death of Pompey. Comédie-Française, Paris
Born
c. 73 BC
Spouses
Publius Crassus
(m. 55 or 54 BC; d. 53 BC)
Gnaeus Magnus
(m. 52 BC; d. 48 BC)
Parent
Quintus Scipio
Cornelia Metella (c. 73 BC[1] – after 48 BC) was the daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica (who was a consul in 52 BC and originally from the gens Cornelia) and his wife Aemilia.[1] She appears in numerous literary sources, including an official dedicatory inscription at Pergamon.[2]
^ abRonald Syme points out that in 74 BC, Cornelia's father was the romantic rival of Cato for Aemilia, Cornelia's mother; their marriage followed soon after and provides the earliest possible date for their daughter's birth. The latest date for Cornelia's marriage to young Crassus would be 54 BC, before he left to join his father for the ill-fated Parthian campaign; Cornelia is unlikely to have been younger than 15 at the time, and so her latest year of birth would be 69 BC. See Syme, “The Sons of Crassus,” Latomus 39 (1980) 403-408, reprinted in Roman Papers (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), vol. 3, p. 1225.
^Greek inscription translated into Latin as Cornelia Q. Metelli Pii Scipionis filia. Despite her father's testamentary "adoption" by Metellus Pius, Cornelia is never called Caecilia Metella in any extant sources. Münzer supposed that she retained the gens Cornelia name because she was born before her father's adoption, which was a legal formality. Discussed by Jerzy Linderski, "Q. Scipio Imperator," in Imperium sine fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic (Franz Steiner, 1996), p. 150 online.
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