Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

OPPI0084 Oppia (36, cf. Opimia 13)

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • Before 500?, birth (Rüpke 2005)
  • 483, death (Rüpke 2005)

Career

  • Virgo Vestalis 483 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • Her name is Oppia in Livy, Opimia in Dion. Hal., (Op)illia in Liv. Per. 2, Popillia in Oros. 2.8.13; Pompilia in Euseb. and Jerome Chr. ad ann. 486 B.C., 1.108f. ed.Helm, and Syncell. 483.7. See Klose, 34, no. 1; Münzer, Philologus 92(1937-38)211f. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Convicted of misconduct and executed (Liv. 2.42.11; Dion. Hal. 8.89.4). (Broughton MRR I)