Munatia Plancina - Three Sisters

Started by Ian McDonald on Thursday, January 2, 2020
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Munatia Plancina is shown of having two sisters, with all three sisters having identical names but with different husbands. One of them (55 BCE to 41 BCE) died before the others were born and was childless, but the other two - despite having different birth dates and children - died in the same year (33 CE). Are they one and the same person?

no romans often named their daughters the same name. eg Julius Caesar had 2 sisters named Julia

Agreed, but Julius Caesar's sisters were at least distinguishable by the suffixes "Major" and "Minor", whereas the three Munatia Plancinas seem to have had identical names. The eldest one, who died before the others were born, may well have been "replaced" by the second one - a practice common until quite recently - but the two younger ones are shown as having been alive contemporaneously and as having died in the same year as each other.

Wikipedia doesn't help much.

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