Victoria Vel Victorina and Her Career Across the Centuries in Early Modern and Modern Numismatic Literature. A Case Study on the Reception of Ancient Culture

Abstract

The article recalls what was established by researchers in reference to Victoria, the mother of emperor Victorinus, and mentioned in the ancient literary sources, the Liber de Caesaribus by Aurelius Victor and the Historia Augusta. These works present Victoria, augusta and mater castrorum, as a woman who was politically engaged in the events in the Imperium Galliarum in the