Aemilia Tertia
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Aemilia Tertia, properly Aemilia, was the wife of Scipio Africanus.
Aemilia Tertia in an anachronistic 15th-century woodcut illustration from a German edition of Boccaccio's book of illustrious women, De mulieribus claris
Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus was a consul of the Roman Republic, as well as a general, who conquered the Antigonid kingdom of Macedon during the Third Macedonian War.
Aemilia Tertia
…rites were passed down in the Cornelian family, "memorial[ising] her and adorn[ing] her female relatives". She is known to have had two brothers: Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus and Marcus Livius Aemilianus. Aemilia bore four children with Africanus. There were two sons, Publius and Lucius: Publius was made augur in 180 BC…
The Triumph of Aemilius Paullus by Vernet, ca. 1789.
Angelica Kauffmann, Aemilius Paullus and his family, by 1783.