Volumnia

Volumnia is a fictional character, the mother of the legendary Roman hero Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus. In Shakespeare's play Coriolanus, she is a significant figure who ultimately persuades her exiled son to spare Rome.

Coriolanus, a proud patrician, was banished from Rome after advising that grain should not be distributed to the plebeians unless they relinquished their tribunes. He then joined the Volsci, Rome's enemies, and led their army against his own city. It was Volumnia, accompanied by Coriolanus's wife and son, who successfully pleaded with him to turn back, saving Rome but leading to his death at the hands of his Volscian allies.12