Vistilia

Who is Vistilia?

Vistilia was a Roman woman who lived in the 1st century and came from a family that held the praetorship. Her brother was probably Sextus Vistilius, a former praetor, who was a former close friend to late Roman General Nero Claudius Drusus. Nero Claudius Drusus was the younger brother to Roman Emperor Tiberius. In 32, Tiberius charged him for criticizing the morals of his great-nephew, Caligula. For this, Tiberius excluded Sextus from his company. Sextus committed suicide in 32.

Vistilia was married six times and had seven children. The most famous among them were Milonia Caesonia, who became a Roman Empress and fourth wife to Roman Emperor Caligula; Caesonia’s younger half-brother Roman General and Consul Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, who was the father to Roman Empress Domitia Longina; and the tragedian and consul Pomponius Secundus.