'The Murder of Regilla: A Case of Domestic Violence in Antiquity'

By NINA C. AYOUB

Born to a patrician family around AD 125, Appia Annia Regilla Atilia Caucidia Tertulla seemed fated for a comfortable life among Rome's elite. Instead, her path veered toward foreign lands and violent ends, says Sarah B. Pomeroy, a professor emerita of classics and history at the City University of...