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Executed ancient Roman women

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Perpetua and Felicity
early 3rd century Carthaginian Christian martyrs
Julia Soaemias
mother of Roman emperor Elagabalus (180-222)
Julia Avita Mamaea
mother of Roman emperor Alexander Severus (died 235)
Livilla
Claudia Livia (Classical Latin: CLAVDIA•LIVIA; – AD 31) was the only daughter of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor and sister to Roman Emperor Claudius and general Germanicus, and thus paternal aunt of emperor Caligula and maternal great-aunt of emperor Nero, as well as the niece and daughter-in-law of Tiberius. She was named after her grandmother, Augustus' wife Livia Drusilla, and commonly known by her family nickname Livilla ("little Livia"). She was born after Germanicus and before Claudius.
Mariamne I
second wife of Herod the Great
Domitia Lepida Minor
mother of Roman empress Messalina
Locusta
thumbnail|''Locusta testing in Nero's presence the poison prepared for Britannicus'', painting by Joseph-Noël Sylvestre, 1876
Serena
niece of Roman emperor Theodosius I
Saint Afra
christian martyr
Claudia Antonia
daughter of emperor Claudius by his second wife Aelia Paetina
Saint Faith
Gallo-Roman saint
Julia Livia
daughter of Drusus Julius Caesar and Livilla
Marcia
mistress and concubine of Roman emperor Commodus
Zenonis
Aelia Zenonis (Greek: Ζηνονίς, 476/477) was Eastern Roman empress as the wife of Basiliscus. Her ancestry is unknown.
Regina
virgin martyr and saint of the Catholic Church
Pelagia of Tarsus
Martyr and saint
Saint Sabina
saint
Annia Cornificia Faustina Minor
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius' daughter (160-212)
Saint Rais
Egyptian saint
Marciana of Mauretania
martyr and saint
Crispina
Crispina (died 5 December, 304) was a virgin martyr of Africa who suffered during the Diocletian persecution. She was born at Thagora, a town in the Roman province of Numidia, located in Taoura, Algeria. (The Tabula Peutingeriana calls it Thacora) in North Africa.) She died by beheading at Theveste, in Numidia.
Cyriaca
Cyriaca, also known as Dominica, was a Roman widow, and patroness to St. Lawrence, and eventually suffered martyrdom.
Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix
Christian saints and martyrs
Acme
Jewish slave and personal maid in the service of the Empress Livia Drusilla, wife of Augustus
Marcia Servilia
daughter of Roman Senator Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus
Vitrasia Faustina
ancient Roman noble