Calpurnius

Calpurnius was the gentile name (nomen gentile) of the Roman family of the Calpurnii (gens Calpurnia) . The plebeian family has appeared since the First Punic War; she appointed the first consul in 180 BC. The most important branch of the family were the Calpurnii Pisones.

Well-known namesake:

Calpurnii Pisones: :

• Gaius Calpurnius Piso (Praetor) , Roman politician, Praetor 211 BC Chr.
• Gaius Calpurnius Piso (consul 180 BC) († 180 BC), Roman politician, son of the previous one
• Gaius Calpurnius Piso (consul 67 BC) , Roman politician
• Gaius Calpurnius Piso Frugi , Roman politician, quaestor 58 BC. BC, son-in-law and student of Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Gaius Calpurnius Piso (consul) († 65), Roman politician, speaker and patron, conspirator against Nero
• Gaius Calpurnius Piso (Consul 111) , Roman politician
• Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso (administrator of Hispania) (died 64 BC), co-conspirator of Catiline and quaestor pro praetore in Hispania ulterior
• Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso (consul 139 BC) (possibly also Lucius instead of Gnaeus?)
• Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso (consul 23 BC) , sometimes with the nickname Frugi , consul together with Augustus
• Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso (consul 7 BC) , politician under Augustus and Tiberius
• Lucius Calpurnius Piso (consul 1 BC) (called Augur ), Roman politician
• Lucius Calpurnius Piso (Praetor) († 25 BC), Praetor
• Lucius Calpurnius Piso (Consul 27) , Roman politician and senator
• Lucius Calpurnius Piso (Consul 57) († 70), Roman politician and senator
• Lucius Calpurnius Piso (Consul 175) , Roman politician
• Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (consul 148 BC) , Roman consul
• Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (consul 112 BC) , Roman consul
• Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (Quaestor) , Quaestor about 100 BC BC, son of the previous one
• Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (consul 58 BC) , Roman consul, father-in-law of Caesar, son of the previous one
• Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi , Roman historian and politician
• Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi Licinianus (38–69), Roman senator, heir to the throne of Emperor Galba
• Lucius Calpurnius Piso Pontifex (48 BC – 32 AD), Roman politician and pontiff
• Marcus Calpurnius Piso , Roman Senator
• Quintus Calpurnius Piso , Roman consul 135 BC. Chr.

other:

• Lucius Calpurnius Bestia (consul 111 BC) , Roman politician and general
• Lucius Calpurnius Bestia (Conspirator) , Roman tribune, participant in the Catilinarian Conspiracy
• Lucius Calpurnius Fabatus , Roman officer (imperial era)
• Lucius Calpurnius Festus , Roman painter
• Lucius Calpurnius Honoratus , Roman officer (imperial era)
• Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus , Consul 59 BC Chr.
• Marcus Calpurnius Longus , Consul 144
• Marcus Calpurnius Sabinus , Roman officer (imperial era)
• Marcus Calpurnius Seneca , Roman officer (imperial era)
• Servius Calpurnius Domitius Dexter , consul 225 AD
• Marcus Calpurnius Flamma , War Tribune 258 BC Chr.
• Calpurnius Siculus : Titus Calpurnius Siculus, poet in the 1st century AD.
• Gaius Calpurnius Flaccus , Roman suffect consul
• Gaius Bellicius Calpurnius Torquatus , consul 148 AD
• Lucius Nonius Calpurnius Torquatus Asprenas , consul 94 AD
• Publius Calpurnius Atilianus , Consul 135
• Publius Calpurnius Victor , Roman officer (imperial era)
• Sextus Calpurnius Agricola , Roman suffect consul

For the female members of the sex, see Calpurnia .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For a complete list of the members of the gens Calpurnia who held offices during the Roman Republic, see T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 2: 99 BC - 31 BC . Cleveland / Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1952. Reprinted unchanged 1968. (Philological Monographs. Ed. By the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 2), pp. 541f

literature

• Iris Hofmann-Löbl: The Calpurnii. Political activity and family continuity . Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Peter Lang, 1996 (European university publications. Series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences, vol. 705), 398 p .; at the same time: Diss.phil. University of Giessen 1994 - ISBN 3-631-49668-0