Episode CLIX - Sabina

Emperors of Rome

La Trobe University

Roman Emire, Rhiannon Evans, Biography, Emperor, La Trobe University, Roman History, Julius Caesar, Rome, Caesar, Ancient History, History, Caillan Davenport, Roman Emperors

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🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Sabina bought some much needed legitimacy to the rule of Hadrian. As a grand-niece of Trajan she was an important dynastic link to the previous emperor, and in death Hadrian could deify her, and be the husband to a god.

Part VIII of 'Empresses of Rome'

Guest:

Professor T. Corey Brennan (Classics, Rutgers University).

Transcript

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0:00.0	Are they?
0:07.1	And welcome to Emperors of Rome, a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University.
0:12.1	I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today is T. Corey Brennan, Professor of Classics
0:17.3	at Rutgers University in New Jersey and author of the book Sabina Augusta, An Imperial
0:23.2	Journey from Oxford University Press.
0:26.4	This is episode C-L-I-X, Sabina.
0:31.1	Sabina bought some much-needed legitimacy to the rule of Hadrian.
0:34.7	As a grand niece of Trajan, she was an important dynastic link to the previous emperor.
0:39.6	And in death, Hadrian could defy her and be the husband to a god.
0:43.9	Here's Corey Brennan.
0:46.3	Public image is so carefully crafted in the case of Sabina and our other sources are so
0:52.9	deficient in terms of the personal aspects that that's about as far as one can get.
0:57.7	This is to talk about the public persona, public image and not beyond that.
1:02.7	That's one of the things about the women of this dynasty is that they keep a low profile,
1:08.2	putting it as having carefully crafted public images is probably the best way to describe
1:15.8	what we have about them at all.
1:17.5	In the case of Sabina, when I guess you compare it to Plotana who we covered just before
1:22.9	this, the only additional source that you kind of have is the Historia Augusta, which
1:29.6	is pretty dubious anyway.
1:32.9	Agreed.
1:33.9	Agreed.
1:34.9	Yes, agreed.
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