Galeria Lysistrate or Lysistrata (2nd-century) was the concubina of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius.[1][2]
She was originally the slave of Pius's wife, Faustina the Elder and later manumitted. She became the acknowledged companion of Antoninus Pius after the death of Faustina in 138. Emperors often refrained from taking a second wife so as not to complicate issues of inheritance but committed to monogamous concubinage with a woman of markedly lower social status as an alternative to marriage.[3] Lysistrata reportedly had a great deal of influence during the later reign of Pius.
^ Anise K. Strong: Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World
^Rawson, Beryl (1974). "Roman Concubinage and Other De Facto Marriages". Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-). 104: 279–305. doi:10.2307/2936094. ISSN 0360-5949.
^Thomas A. J. McGinn, "Concubinage and the Lex Iulia on Adultery," Transactions of the American Philological Association 121 (1991), p. 337 n. 11..
GaleriaLysistrate or Lysistrata (2nd-century) was the concubina of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius. She was originally the slave of Pius's wife, Faustina...
in the introduction to that anthology. List of slaves Claudia Acte GaleriaLysistrate Marcia (mistress of Commodus) "Companion: Caenis". feminaeromanae...
Simon Scarrow's 2020 novel: "The Emperor's Exile". Antonia Caenis GaleriaLysistrate Marcia (mistress of Commodus) List of enslaved people Cassius Dio...
who was said to owe his office to the influence of Pius's mistress, GaleriaLysistrate. Repentinus had the rank of a senator, but no real access to senatorial...
Cura Annonae. The emperor never remarried. Instead, he lived with GaleriaLysistrate, one of Faustina's freed women. Concubinage was a form of female companionship...
painter. Gabriel Prosser (1776–1800), leader of Virginia slave revolt. GaleriaLysistrate (2nd century), mistress of Roman emperor Antoninus Pius. Ganga Zumba...
Global Information