Talk:Vistilia

Identity:
Vistilia the mother of Corbulo etc. and Vistilia the prostitute are generally considered to be relatives, but not the same woman. According to one common interpretation, the famous mother is sister to Vistilius, the prostitute his daughter. See for example R. Syme, Tacitus [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958], vol. I, pp. 373-4 n. 2; M.-Th. Raepsaet Charlier, Prosopographie des femmes de l'ordre senatorial (Ier-IIe siècles), Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Lettres. Fonds René Draguet 4 (Lovanii: Aedibus Peeters), #814 and #815 (pp. 636-9) ; Tacitus, ''The Annals. Translated with Introduction and Notes by A.J. Woodman'' (Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2004), p. 81 n. 147.


 * Regardless of the anonymous editors' comment (Talk page history shows the above was added 01:56, 17 March 2007‎ by someone at IP address 68.14.1.108), this article does need some attention & work. Maybe they are the same woman; what little I've so far found about Vistilia the prostitute suggests that is possible. But what concerns me most is that the order of the children may be wrong. This is what the Elder Pliny writes in his Natural History (VII.3): "Vistilia the wife of Glitius and subsequently of Pomponius and of Orfitius, citizens of the highest distinction, bore these husbands four children, in each case after six months' pregnancy, but subsequently gave birth to Suillius Rufus after ten months and Corbulo after six -- both of these became consuls, -- and subsequently bore Caesonia, the consort of the Emperor Gaius, after seven months." If Pliny is correct, & her husbands are in proper order, then her children ought to be as follows: to Glitius, ignotus or ignota; to Pomponius, P. Pomponius Secundus & Q. Pomponius Secundus; to Orfitus, Ser. Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus (although he was likely born Salvidienus Orfitus, praenomen unknown); to an unknown father, Suillius Rufus; to Gn. Domitius Corbulo, the better known son of the same name; & last to Caesonius, Milona Caesonia. That is different from the list on the article page. Is more evidence needed to change the list in the article? -- llywrch (talk) 21:37, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Divide the article
The article is about two people, and it should be divided in two--Aciram (talk) 00:26, 14 February 2013 (UTC)