Cornelia Klier
Cornelia Klier (née Bügel) is a German rower who was born in Leutenberg on March 19, 1957. [1, 2] She married in 1980, just before the Olympic Games, and in Moscow, she went by her marital name.
Cornelia
Cornelia was the second daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the hero of the Second Punic War, and Aemilia Paulla. While drawing similarities to paradigmatic instances of virtuous Roman women like Lucretia, Cornelia distinguishes herself from the rest because of her interest in literature, writing, and investing in her sons' political aspirations. She was Gracchi's mother, and Scipio Aemilianus' mother-in-law.
Biography
Cornelia married Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus' grandson, at an early age. The union proved to be a happy one, and together they had 12 children, a highly exceptional Roman standard. Six were boys, six were girls.
Only three are known to have survived childhood: Sempronia, who married her cousin Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, and the two Gracchi brothers (Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus), who would defy Rome's political institutions by attempting popular changes.
She elected to stay a widow after her husband's death while still enjoying a princess-like status and set to educate her children. She even denied King Ptolemy VIII Physcon's marriage request since she became a chaste and dutiful wife after her only husband died. However, her reluctance could easily be explained by her desire for more independence and freedom in the way her children were raised.
Cornelia afterwards studied literature, Latin, and Greek. Cornelia took advantage of the Greek professors she brought to Rome, particularly the philosophers Blossius (from Cumae) and Diophanes (from Mytilene) to educate young men. She had been taught the necessity of acquiring an education and came to take an intensive role in the education of her boys during the "bygone republican era," creating a "superior Roman political leader race."
Cornelia constantly supported her sons Tiberius and Gaius, even when they angered the orthodox patrician households she was born into. According to Valerius Maximus, she took joy in them, comparing her children to "jewels" and other wonderful things.
After her violent death, she retired from Rome to a Misenum villa, but continued to welcome guests. Her home saw many knowledgeable men, especially Greek scholars, who travelled from all over the Roman world to freely read and discuss their ideas.
Rome worshipped her qualities, and when she died in advanced age, the populace voted in her honour for a statue.
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