Overview
Galeria Fundana ( – aft. 69) was a Roman empress, the second wife of Roman emperor Vitellius.
Biography
Early life
Suetonius tells us that Galeria was the daughter of an ex-praetor, and bore two children during her marriage, a son and a daughter. Gwyn Morgan assumes she was related to Publius Galerius Trachalus, "Otho's alleged speechwriter".
Empress
Tacitus, who writes unfavourably about Vitellius, claims that Galeria was a woman of "exemplary virtue" who "took no part in [Vitellius's] horrors." Tacitus specifically notes she protected Galerius Trachalus from her husband when he purged the supporters of his defeated rival Otho.
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