Fannia
Fannia was a living in the 1st and early 2nd century AD Roman plebeian members of the family of the Fannier and the second wife of the Stoic philosopher and politician Gaius Helvidius Priscus.
Life
The educated and cultured Fannia was the daughter of the younger Arria and of Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus, who was one of the leaders of the Stoic- Republican Senate opposition to the Emperor Nero. Your wedding with Helvidius Priscus, by which it was stepmother of his eponymous son from his first marriage, 56 AD found some time held prior to the year in which her husband served as tribune of the people.
Like their parents and grandparents as well as her husband hung Fannia to Stoicism. AD 66 was her father Thrasea Paetus accused its oppositional stance against Nero and sentenced to death. Because Helvidius Priscus had occurred for his father, he had to go into exile to Apollonia, where Fannia accompanied him voluntarily. Two years later, the couple was allowed after Helvidius Priscus had been rehabilitated by the new emperor Galba, live again in Rome. Ultimately, however, continued in the power struggle for the imperial throne in 69 AD Vespasian through, opposite the Helvidius Priscus behaved offensive and therefore had to go for the second time in exile. Again Fannia followed her husband into exile; but this was soon killed it ( around 75 AD ) on behalf of Vespasian. After the death of Vespasian Fannia was able to return to Rome.
Fannia instructed Herennius Senecio to write the life of her husband in the form of a Enkomions, for which she also provided private documents. Therefore, she was made under Emperor Domitian 93 AD the process. She confirmed Senecios statement, to have been the Contracting Authority of the work, and replied in the negative, whether her mother knew about it. Nevertheless, the two women were banished. Fannias goods were confiscated, but she managed to take a copy of the biography of her husband into exile, although all copies of the work to be destroyed.
In Domitian's command was 93 AD also Fannias stepson, who married younger Helvidius Priscus with Anteia eliminated. After the assassination of the emperor ( AD 96 ) Fannia and Arria went back to Rome. They supported the family with her fellow younger Pliny in his futile efforts to avenge the death of the younger Helvidius Priscus in the legal way.
107 AD used Fannia a relative, the Vestal Iunia, and then fell ill seriously; maybe they died at that time to the consequences of this disease.