Virgilia

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Virgilia is the wife of Coriolanus in William Shakespeare's play Coriolanus (1607–1610), in which same play Volumnia is his mother. With respect to the legendary figure Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, some accounts (Brewer 1898) say that his wife's name was actually Volumnia, probably following the Roman historian Livy. However, in the very influential account of his life, and one familiar to Shakespeare, namely, Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, the wife's name is Virgilia, or in John Dryden's translation, Vergilia.

[edit] References

• Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham (1898), "Virgilia", in Brewer's Reader's Handbook, Eprint.

• Plutarch, John Dryden (trans.), "Coriolanus", Eprint.