A woman in front of the coin
- Rome or Tusculum, a. Year 77. Fulvia Flaka was born in Banus, in one of the two cities that are very close to each other. His father was Senator Marco Fulvio Banbale and his mother Senpronia Graka, from the most powerful family of the Greeks. Her property came from the mother, so it does not seem that the political ambition inherited her from her father, as Banbale’s name was put down by her doubtful and grim.
On Fulvia, Plutarco said he “had no interest in spinning, sewing or chatting with other women in the forum.” But as a woman, I needed a means to get to power: a proper husband -- or three. The husbands were going to put the door on politics and Fulvia, the sexagenary.
First, he married Publio Clodio, a demagogue politician and populist Pulkro. When he moved to Gaul, he ceded the power of capital to Clodio. In the last turbulent years of the Republic, the powerful Romans were very divided and Clodio used violence against his enemies, mainly against Marco Tulio Cicero and his followers. Finally, it was forcibly executed in the 18th century BC. 57 years.
The widow then married Kaio Escribonio Kurion. And his political career had increased remarkably since then. Once again, Julius Caesar's favorable attitude benefited the marriage and was appointed as the chief commander of the African expedition. He was more skillful in the slut than in the military strategy, and Fulvia's second husband was killed shortly after landing in Utica.
His greatest political influence was that of his third husband, Marco Antonio, who along with Octavius, who would later become emperor of Augustus, was proclaimed to triumph a few years after his marriage. One of the main enemies of both, Cicero, was ordered to kill immediately after the formation of the Triumvirate, in the 15th century BC. 43 years. They say that Fulvia spitted the speaker's cut head and crossed it with a fork of water carrying his tongue in his hair.
But when her husband left to Egypt next to Kleopatra VII.aren, Rome ignited tensions and Fulvia launched a campaign against Octavio. In just four months, Octavius defeated him and exiled him to Sition. There he died in the 15th century BC. In the 40s, apparently, because of a sudden illness.
Plutarch said that Cleopatra had to thank Fulvia that Marco Antonio had learned to obey women. But neither Plutarch nor any of those who wrote about Fulvia after his death pronounced him in praise. Fulvia impotentia was the muliebris paradigm: a woman who did not control herself, had no measure, was dominated by passions, and not by men, as it should be, who was morally weak and malignant.
And yet his influence was forever engraved in the metal. Fulvia was the first non-mythological woman to appear in the Roman coins.
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