Gaius Fannius Strabo

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Gaius Fannius Strabo was a politician of the Roman Republic who came from the plebeian family of the Fannier . 161 BC He held the consulate .

Life

According to the filiation of the Fasti Capitolini , the father and grandfather of Gaius Fannius Strabo also carried the prenomen Gaius ; perhaps his father is to be equated with the tribunes Gaius Fannius mentioned by the Roman historian Titus Livius in connection with the Scipion trials .

No later than 164 BC Gaius Fannius Strabo held the praetur . 161 BC He reached the highest state office, the consulate, which he exercised together with Marcus Valerius Messalla . Two decrees handed down to posterity, which Fannius issued as consul, seem to indicate that, in the tradition of the older Cato, he endeavored very much to preserve the old, simple Roman way of life and to protect it from the influences of the increasingly invading Hellenistic people, which were considered to be detrimental to the state and morals Protect civilization . On the one hand, together with his colleague, through the resolution of the Lex Fannia, named after him, he ordered a limitation of the expenses for guest feasts and the associated costs, on the other hand he ordered that the Greek philosophers and rhetors who flocked to Rome should not stay in the capital be allowed longer.

From Fannius' later career it is known that he lived in 158 BC. Served as leader of a Roman embassy to Illyria and four years later, 154 BC. BC, again at the head of a Roman delegation, which this time was supposed to mediate a peace between the Pergamene king Attalus II and the Bithynian king Prusias II in Pergamon . Fannius' death year is unknown.

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ So Friedrich Münzer : Fannius 20). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 2, Stuttgart 1909, column 1994 f.
  2. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ad annum 161 BC Chr .; Aulus Gellius , Noctes Atticae 2, 24, 2 and 15, 11, 1; among others
  3. ↑ Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2, 24, 4; Pliny , Naturalis historia 10, 139; Macrobius , Saturnalia 3, 13, 13; 3, 16, 14; 3, 17, 3ff .; Athenaios 6, 108, p. 274 cd.
  4. ^ Suetonius , De grammaticis 25 = Aulus Gellius , Noctes Atticae 15, 11, 1.
  5. ↑ Polybios 32, 18, 3ff .; 32, 23, 1.
  6. ↑ Polybios 33, 9, 3.
personal data
SURNAME Fannius Strabo, Gaius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strabo, Gaius Fannius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 161 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH before 164 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 154 BC Chr.