Genealogical chart -- Regilla's and Herodes' family -- Introduction -- Girlhood in Rome -- A Roman matron in imperial Athens -- Public life -- Death in Athens and murder trial in Rome -- Regilla's final resting place -- Chronological chart
Summary
Born to an illustrious Roman family in 125 BCE, Regilla was married at the age of fifteen to Herodes, a wealthy Greek. Twenty years later--and eight months pregnant with her sixth child--Regilla died under mysterious circumstances, after a blow to the abdomen delivered by Herodes's freedman. Though Herodes was charged, he was acquitted. Pomeroy's investigation suggests that despite Herodes's erection of numerous monuments to his deceased wife, he was in fact guilty of the crime
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-228) and index
