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Julia Domna

Julia Domna (c.170-217): Roman empress, wife of the emperor Septimius Severus.

Family

Julia Domna

Father: Julius Bassianus
Husband: Septimius Severus
Sister: Julia Maesa
Sons: Caracalla, Geta

Life

Julia Domna

c.170: Born in Emesa
185: Marriage to Septimius Severus
186: Birth of Caracalla
189: Birth of Geta
193: Accession of Severus; Julia Domna called Augusta
Cameo of Julia Domna

195: Honorary title Mater Castrorum
211, February: Death of her husband
211, December: Caracalla kills Geta
215: In charge of the cura epistularum Graecarum, epistularum Latinarum, and the office of a libellis
217: Assassination of Caracalla; commits suicide in Antioch
Buried in the Mausoleum of Augustus, later transferred to the Mausoleum of Hadrian

Other

Julia Domna played an important role as center of circle of Roman and Greek philosophers and sophists, including Philostratus, whom she ordered to write the Life of Apollonius.

After her death and the brief reign of Macrinus, her family fortune was restored by Julia Domna's sister Julia Maesa, who put het grandson Heliogabalus on the throne.