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FAUSTINA, ANNIA GALERIA

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 213 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA
FAUSTINA, ANNIA GALERIA , the younger, daughter of Antoninus
Pius
 , and wife of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. She is accused by Dio
Cassius
  and Capitolinus of
gross
  profligacy, and was reputed to have instigated the revolt of Avidius
Cassius
  against her
husband
 . She died in 175 or 176 (so Clinton,
Fasti
  rem.) at Halala, near
Mount
  Taurus, in Cappadocia, whither she had accompanied Aurelius. Charitable schools for orphan girls (hence called Faustinianae) were founded in her honour, like those established by her father Antoninus in honour of his wife, the
elder
  Faustina. Her statue was placed in the temple of
Venus
 , and she was numbered among the tutelary deities of Rome. From the fact that Aurelius was always devoted to her and was heartbroken at her death, it has been inferred that the unfavourable estimate of the historians is prejudiced or at least mistaken.
See Capitolinus, Marcus Aurelius; Dio Cassius lxxi. 22, lxxiv. 3; E.
Renan
 , in Melanges d'histoire et des voyages, 169-195.


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