Ancient homicide
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
Appia Annia Regilla was born in 125 to an elite family in Rome. She was wealthy, aristocratic, and related to Roman senators and emperors. In 139, when she was about fourteen years old, she married forty-year-old Herodes Atticus, a remarkably wealthy and influential Athenian who was a friend to the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius and a tutor to Marcus Aurelius. A few years after the marriage, the couple moved to Greece and made a name for themselves in social and religious circles. Regilla became a priestess of Demeter in Olympia and was the only woman officially present at the Olympic Games. In 160, though, something went terribly wrong. A freedman of Herodes Atticus named Alcimedon kicked her in the abdomen and killed her. She was eight months pregnant.
As seen on
Athens City Tour: the city of myths