Women / Persons ~ P13620

Eponina

Alternate Names:

Epponina
Wife of Julius Sabinus

Gender: Female

Life Dates: d. 78 CE

Types:

Classical Roman
Wife, Honorable and Dedicated

Note: Early version of wife disguising, hiding imprisoned husband. Plutarch celebrated Epponina's heroism in hiding her husband for years after his failed rebellion in Gaul; mother of two sons; both wife and husband executed by Vespasian; Eponine became a favored name in Revolutionary France.

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Biographies (3 Total)

Conjugal Affection: The Wife of Julius Sabinus Author: L. M. Stretch . Collection Title: The Beauties of History; or, Pictures of Virtue and Vice, Drawn from Real Life: Designed for the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth. 1770
Eponina Author: Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen . Collection Title: The Heroines of Domestic Life. 1861
Eponina, Wife of Julius Sabinus Author: Lydia Maria Child . Collection Title: Good Wives. Biographies of Good Wives. Celebrated Women, Married Women: Biographies of Good Wives. 1833