Talk:Vibia Sabina

Third Cousin? Not.
Going by the relationship chart at the lower part of the main page, Vibia Sabina is Hadrian's


 * wife
 * Second Cousin Once Removed (by blood)
 * First Cousin Once Removed (by adoption of Hadrian by Trajan)

But she is nowhere in those relationships a "3rd" cousin. Joe Hepperle (talk) 10:00, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Bio, or dramatized play?
This section reads like a feminist review of a dramatized play rather than an objective account of the life of Vibia Sabina.

''They had no children and had an unhappy marriage. Sabina was said to have remarked that she had taken steps to see she never had children by Hadrian because they would "harm the human race". It seems that she once aborted a child of theirs. Sabina was strong and independent and her beliefs in marriage didn't sit well with the Emperor.''

If there are any real historians out there who can separate fact from fiction from speculation from feminist wishful thinking, please do your magic here. Otherwise I'll do the best I can when I come by next year. Joe Hepperle (talk) 11:02, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

The Empress wanted what?

 * She married Hadrian in 100, at the Roman Empress Pompeia Plotina's request, for Hadrian to succeed her great uncle, in 117.

It is not clear to me what Pompeia Plotina was requesting; as the sentence stands it sounds like the empress wanted Vibia to marry Hadrian so that the latter could become emperor 17 years later, which makes little sense to me. Also not clear whether the goal was for Hadrian to eventually succeed Vibia's great uncle, or Pompeia's. --Haruo (talk) 17:54, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

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New Biography
Hello all, We've got a new biography of Sabina out this year. I'll be getting my hands on in relatively soon and I hope to make a major overhaul of this page then. In the interim, why is Suetonius the body of this page? Surely there's something to be said about Sabina's own biography that isn't just a rumored affair? https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190250997.001.0001/oso-9780190250997