Are they, and welcome to Emperors of Rome, a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University.

I'm your host, Matt Smith, and with me today is Dr. Rianne Evans, Associate Professor

in Classics and Ancient History at Latrobe University.

This is episode CXCVI, Fulvia.

Fulvia came from a Roman noble family and is strongly associated with the string of influential

husbands, most notably Mark Antony.

She was influential and powerful in her own way, and would go on to play an important role

in the Peru-San War against Octavian.

Here's Rianne Evans.

Fulvia was an elite Roman woman.

She was alive during the late Republic, so we think she died about 40 BCE.

And she came from a family called the Fulvia, not surprising.

That was her father's name, Fulvia, so she becomes Fulvia.

And they are an important Roman family, so her father isn't a new man.

There's a whole line of consuls and senators back there.

And she seems to be the only child of these two important parents, Marcus Fulvia's Bambalio,

great name, and Sampronia, who was extremely aristocratic.

The Sampronia, they go way back, as much as if not more than the Fulvia.

And through them, she inherits a huge amount of money.

Right, so not only is Fulvia an important man, but he married above his station.

Yeah, well certainly as good as, and this Sampronia, there's actually some debate about this,

but a lot of people think she might be the Sampronia, who appears in the Catalan conspiracy,

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