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Autodescription — Verginia (Q1278485)
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Virginia / Verginia
[edit]I don't understand why wikipedia persists in calling Virginia, the Roman heroine, Verginia, and in imposing this inconsistent designation in other languages. In French, Verginia does not exist, it has always been Virginie. The denomination Verginia is a fake, made from the Roman gens Verginia, which was a patrician family. However all the history of Virginia's rape, trial and death is based on the fact she is plebeian, while the Decemviri don't any more respect the rights of the Plebs and its institutions. It is false to pretend that her genuine Roman name was Verginia, as the latin text of Livy's Roman History shows Virginia, and her father Virginius. An error may be widely spread : it does not transform it into a truth.
Some links : https://www.jstor.org/stable/641096?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/livy-the-history-of-rome-vol-1
English literature : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appius_and_Virginia
Art History https://www.wga.hu/html_m/m/mura/2/virginia.html https://www.elisabethstorrs.com/dying-for-rome-virginia/ http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/garland/deweever/UV/virginia.htm https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Virginia_(Roman_mythology) https://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/RENAISSANCE/Default.cfm?IRN=202371&BioArtistIRN=23339&MnuID=3&GalID=4&ViewID=2
--Slojkine (talk) 07:57, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
- @Slojkine: Single Wikipedias are to be corrected; I have moved "Verginia", which is a form still used, to aliases. --Epìdosis 08:31, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
Thank you ! --Slojkine (talk) 09:50, 12 August 2019 (UTC)