I’m Daniel‘s wife of ten years (as of June 2018) and mommy to four busy boys (Edmund 9, William 8, Ethan 4, and newborn Mattis) and one pretty little girl (Margaux 6). Classical fits me two ways: I studied classical piano formally for thirteen years (and taught piano for ten) and I studied classical liberal arts in high school and college which led to me graduating with a BA in liberal arts and culture from New Saint Andrews College, in Moscow, Idaho, where we now live. 

I call this blog The Classical Mama also because we want to educate our children based on a classical Christian approach to learning. I will be writing posts recounting why we want this, what we learn about it, and how we fit it into our family.

-Lydia Foucachon

“What is the image in your header?”

Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi (1785) by Angelica Kauffman

Cornelia Scipionis Africana (c. 190 – c. 100 BC).
Cornelia was the daughter of Publius Scipio Africanus and the wife of her cousin Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus. She was the mother of 12 children, including the famous Gracchi brothers Tiberius and Gaius. After her husband died in 154 B.C., the modest matron devoted her life to raising her children, turning down an offer of marriage from King Ptolemy Physcon of Egypt. She is remembered as a prototypical example of a virtuous Roman woman.