Poppaea Sabina Major

Poppaea Sabina the Elder was a distinguished woman, whom Tacitus praises as a wealthy woman and a woman of distinction. Tacitus describes her as ‘the loveliest woman of her day’. In 47, she committed suicide as an innocent victim of the intrigues of the Roman Empress Valeria Messalina, having been charged with having adultery with former consul Decimus Valerius Asiaticus.

The father of Poppaea Sabina the Elder was a certain Gaius Poppaeus Sabinus. This man of humble birth was consul in 9 and was the governor of Moesia from 12 - 35.[1] Passed during his consulship was the Lex Papia Poppaea, a law meant to strengthen and encourage marriage. During his consulship, the future Emperor Vespasian was born. During the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, he received a military triumph, for ending a revolt in Thrace in 26. From 15 until his death, he served as Imperial Proconsul (or Governor) of Greece and in other provinces. This competent administrator enjoyed the friendship of the Emperors Augustus and Tiberius. He died in late December of AD 35 from natural causes. After his death, Poppaea Sabina the Younger assumed the name of her maternal grandfather.

After Titus Ollius's death, Poppaea's mother remarried Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio (I). Lentulus Scipio was a divisional commander in 22, consul in 24 and later a senator. Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio (II) was most probably Poppaea's stepbrother. Lentulus Scipio II served as a consul in 56 and he later served as a senator.

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