Appia Annia Regilla
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Appia Annia Regilla, full name Appia Annia Regilla Atilia Caucidia Tertulla, was a wealthy, aristocratic and influential Roman woman, who was a distant relative of several Roman emperors and empresses
Tomb presumed to be that of Annia Regilla in Rome's Caffarella Park
The Nymphaeum of Herodes Atticus and Regilla in Olympia, Greece
The Odeon of Herodes Atticus built in memory of his wife at the Acropolis in Athens
The tomb in an engraving by Piranesi
Herodes Atticus
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Herodes Atticus was an Athenian rhetorician, as well as a Roman senator. A great philanthropic magnate, he and his wife Appia Annia Regilla, for whose murder he was potentially responsible, commission
Appia Annia Regilla
…aristocratic and influential Roman woman, who was a distant relative of several Roman emperors and empresses. She was the wife of the prominent Greek Herodes Atticus. Regilla was born into an aristocratic family of consular rank. She was a member of the gens Annia, of the venerable branch of the Annii Regilli. Regilli…
Herodes Atticus bust, from his villa at Kephissia. mid-2nd century
Herodes Atticus. Marble, ca. 161 AD. Found in Probalinthos, Attica— Louvre, Paris
Polydeukes, favourite of Herodes Atticus – Altes Museum, Berlin
Memnon the Ethiopian, foster child and student of Herodes Atticus; marble, c. 170 AD, from the villa of Herodes Atticus (Altes Museum, Berlin)