Gaius Marcius Coriolanus
✓ Source-basedfalling5th-century BC Roman general
A Roman general who earned his name conquering a city, then turned around and led its people back to besiege Rome itself - except historians now aren't sure he existed at all.
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Wilhelm Wandschneider - Coriolan in Plau am See
'Coriolanus's Wife and Mother Beg Him to Spare Rome' by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout_-_Volumnia_before_Coriolanus.jpg?width=1200)
Jan Erasmus Quellinus (Attr.) - Volumnia before Coriolanus
Maulbertsch Coriolanus at the gates of Rome
Alma Tadema Coriolanus House
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Anne Seymour Damer. A woman of art and fashion, 1748-1828 (1908) (14760066661)
Comic History of Rome p 063 Coriolanus parting from his Wife and FamilyIn their orbit 2
Politicians born in the 600s BC 6
About this person
Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus supposedly lived in the 5th century BC and won his surname through valour during Rome's siege of the Volscian city of Corioli. Exiled from Rome afterward, he crossed lines entirely: he commanded Volscian troops in a siege against his own former city. Ancient historians like Livy, Plutarch, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus accepted him as real and built a consensus account of his life. Modern scholars have pulled that certainty apart, some arguing he's wholly legendary, others questioning the timing or accuracy of the conventional story. His arc - hero to traitor to question mark - became the spine of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus and inspired Beethoven's Coriolan Overture, which drew not from Shakespeare but from Heinrich Joseph von Collin's play.
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