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ID: 901000831
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000831
Record Type: Character/Person

Verginia (Roman literary character, Ab Urbe Condita, Livy, 27/9 BCE)

Note: Character in Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, concerning a woman of Roman legend who was killed by her father in order to save her virtue, which was threatened by the deceit and lust of Roman officials.

Display Date: lived 6th century BCE, published 27/9 BCE

Names:
Verginia (Roman literary character, Ab Urbe Condita, Livy, 27/9 BCE) (preferred,English-P,D)
Virginia (Roman literary character, Ab Urbe Condita, Livy, 27/9 BCE) (English,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Literature and Performing Arts (P)
....<Literary characters> (P)
........Verginia (Roman literary character, Ab Urbe Condita, Livy, 27/9 BCE) (I)
Related Iconography:
has parallels with .... Lucretia
..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Roman iconography, Roman characters, Lucretia (Roman character)) [901000830]

Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... literary character
.....(characters (people by activity), people by activity, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
culture/religion is .... Ancient Roman
.....(Ancient Italian, Mediterranean (Early Western World), Early Western World, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Verginia (Roman literary character, Ab Urbe Condita, Livy, 27/9 BCE)
................Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
Virginia (Roman literary character, Ab Urbe Condita, Livy, 27/9 BCE)
................Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verginia#/media/File:Romanino_Virginia_Buonconsiglio_TN.JPG

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