Salonina Valerian I daughter in law Ancient Roman Coin Venus Cult Rare i55380

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Salonina
 – Roman Empress: 253-268 A.D. – Wife of Gallienus

Silvered Bronze Antoninianus 21mm (3.96 grams) Rome mint: 267 A.D.
Reference: RIC 86, C 113
SALONINAAVG – Diademed, draped bust right on crescent.
VENVSAVG Exe: PXV – Venus standing left, holding helmet and spear with shield.

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Venus Victrix (“Venus the Victorious”) was an aspect of
the armed Aphrodite that Greeks had inherited from the East, where the goddess
Ishtar
“remained a goddess of war, and Venus
could bring victory to a
Sulla
or a Caesar.” Pompey, Sulla’s protégé,
vied with his patron and with Caesar for public recognition as her protégé. In
55 BC he dedicated a temple to her at the top of his
theater
in the
Campus Martius
. She had a shrine on the
Capitoline Hill
, and festivals on August 12 and
October 9. A sacrifice was annually dedicated to her on the latter date. In
neo-classical art, her epithet as Victrix is often used in the sense of ‘Venus
Victorious over men’s hearts’ or in the context of the
Judgement of Paris
(e.g.
Canova
‘s
Venus Victrix
, a half-nude reclining
portrait of
Pauline Bonaparte
).

Venus was a
Roman
goddess

principally associated with
love,
beauty
and
fertility
, who played a key role in many
Roman religious
festivals and myths. From the third century BC, the
increasing
Hellenization
of Roman upper classes identified her as the equivalent of the
Greek goddess

Aphrodite
.

The Birth of Venus
, by
Sandro Botticelli
c. 1485–1486.

Julia

Cornelia Salonina (d. 268,

Mediolanum
)

was an

Augusta

, wife of

Roman

Emperor
Gallienus

and mother of

Valerian

II
, Saloninus

, and

Marinianus

.

Julia Cornelia Salonina’s origin is unknown. According to a modern theory,

she was born of Greek

origin

in Bithynia
,

then part of the province of

Bithynia et

Pontus
,

Asia Minor

. However, there exists some scepticism on that.

She was married to Gallienus about ten years before his accession to the throne.

When her husband became joint-emperor with his father

Valerian

in 253, Cornelia Salonina was named Augusta.

Cornelia was the mother of three princes,

Valerian

II
, Saloninus

and

Marinianus

.

Her fate, after the murder of Gallienus, during the siege of

Mediolanum

in 268, is unknown. It is likely that either her life was spared

or the she was executed together with other members of her family, at the orders

of the Senate of Rome.

Her name is reported on coins with Latin legend as Cornelia Salonina;

however, from the Greek coinage come the names Iulia Cornelia Salonina,

Publia Licinia Cornelia Salonina, and Salonina Chrysogona

(attribute that means “begotten of gold”).


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