Cornelia Salonina [SEP] noble title
throne. When her husband became joint-emperor with his father Valerian in 253, Cornelia Salonina was named "Augusta".
Cornelia was the mother of three princes, Valerian II, Saloninus and Marinianus. Her fate, after the murder of Gallienus, during the siege of Mediolanum in 268, is unknown. It is likely that either her life was spared or that she was executed together with other members of her family, at the orders of the Senate of Rome.
Her name is reported on coins with Latin
legend as "Cornelia Salonina"; however, from the Greek coinage come the names "Iulia Cornelia Salonina", "Publia Licinia Cornelia Salonina", and "Salonina Chrysogona" (attribute that means "begotten of gold").
Bibliography.
- Bray, John. "Gallienus : A Study in Reformist and Sexual Politics", Wakefield Press, Kent Town, 1997,
- "Salonina", "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities", edited William Smith (1870).
- Partial Salonina