FANNIA (Pliny's letters)

FANNIA

• Daughter of Arria the younger and grandaughter of Arria the elder
• Shown to be pious as she risked her own health to take care of an ill relative who was a vestal virgin, first by choice then when she was ordered by the priest (because when vestal virgins became seriously ill they're given into the care of a matron)
• Pliny announces her virtues: chaste, dignifies, kind, respectable and she followed her husband into exile then was exiled herself when confessing to helping Sencio write the life of her husband Helvidius
• Pliny reveals how men viewed their wives in Rome when he states that Fannia is…