Anastasia Korlat (daughter of Aurora)

Lady Anastasia Korlat, also known as Mother of the Sempronii was an early century Yutemond noblewoman of the Korlat dynasty and the younger sister of dictator, Livia Korlat. She was the mother of the Sempronian sisters.
Anastasia puts herself apart from the rest because of her interest in literature, writing, and her investment in the political careers of her daughters. She was the mother of the Sempronii sisters, and the mother-in-law of Antonius (her daughter Livilla married him in 770 BE), a general and prominent statesman during the dictatorship and later queenship of her niece, Ulpia. She also survived the purge of Accoleius during the reign of Octavia and was the eldest living Korlat dynastic member dying in 830 BE at the advanced age of 128.
== History ==
Anastasia was the daughter of Aurora the Sweet and Galerius Korlat, she was the much more obscure younger sister of Livia Korlat. She married Sempronian, grandson of Tiberius Sempronius, when he was already in middle age. The union proved to be a happy one, and together they had 4 children.
Her son, Cyprian would have seven arranged marriages; one successful to Marcus Vipsanius Rio. She was at his side when he was bedridden and suffered from illness.
After her husband's death, she chose to remain a widow while still enjoying a princess-like status and set herself to educating her children. She even refused the marriage proposal of Antonius because she is made to be a virtuous and dutiful wife after the death of her only husband. However, her refusal could simply be justified by the fact that she had a desire for more independence and freedom in the manner in which her children were to be raised.
Anastasia always supported her daughters Marcellina and Lovella, even when their actions outraged the conservative noble families in which she was born. She took a lot of pride in them, comparing her children to "jewels" and other precious things, according to Lucretius.
After their violent deaths, she retired from Yutemond to a villa in Feilerion but continued to receive guests. Her villa saw the likes of many learned men, including scholars, who came from all over the realm to read and discuss their ideas freely. Yutemond worshipped her virtues, and when she died at an advanced age, the city voted for a statue in her honor.
== Death ==
Anastasia Korlat lived past 100 years, dying at exactly 128 years old. She had three daughters and one son with her husband.
== The Anastasian Statue ==
After her death, a marble statue of Anastasia was erected, but only the base has survived; it is "the first likeness of a secular Yutemond woman set up by her contemporaries in a public space". 
Her statue endured during the revolutionary reign of Livia, and she became a model for future Yutemond women. Later, anti-populist conservatives filed away the reference to her daughters and replaced it with a reference to her as the daughter of Aurora rather than the mother of the Sempronii.
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