Virgilia

In the very influential account most familiar to Shakespeare, Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, Coriolanus' wife's name is Virgilia, or in John Dryden's translation, Vergilia.

She goes with her mother-in-law and son to the Volsce' camp to sue to Coriolanus not to make war against Rome.

Critic Unhae Langis argued that "Virgilia's erotic presence evokes in her husband aspects of him rarely disclosed publicly—gentleness, respect, and passion towards her" (19–20).

19th-century critic Anna Jameson described Virgilia as possessing "modest sweetness,"conjugal tenderness, " and "fond solicitude," in contrast to what she saw as the "haughty temper," "admiration of the valour and high hearing of her son," and "proud but unselfish love for" Coriolanus of Volumnia.

[3] In the 2011 film Coriolanus directed by Ralph Fiennes, Virgilia is played by Jessica Chastain.