Veturia

Veturia is the mother of the Roman Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus legendary figure, who was banished from Rome and then went over to the Volscians. He started a war against his own hometown, he only broke off at the request of his mother Veturia. He led the Volscian army back to his home, but was there slain as a traitor. The saga plays at the beginning of the 5th century BC

Veturia also appears in the series of nine good heroines as a representative of paganism.

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• Dionysius of Halicarnassus Antiquitates Romanae 8.39 to 54
• Livy Ab urbe condita 2,40,1-12
• Plutarch Coriolanus 33-36
• Valerius Maximus Facta et dicta memorabilia 5,4,1