Gaius Licinius Calvus

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Gaius Licinius Calvus was a Roman politician from the plebeian family of the Licinier .

Calvus was the grandson of the two-time (400 and 396 BC) consular tribunes Publius Licinius Calvus Esquilinus . In 364 he held the consulate together with Gaius Sulpicius Peticus ; at that time Etruscan stage plays were organized for the first time in Rome.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fasti Capitolini and Diodor XV 95.1; Titus Livius VII 2,1 names Gaius Licinius Stolo as consul for 364 and gives the year 361 for Licinius Calvus. Compare: T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, p. 116, (Unchanged reprint 1968).
  2. ↑ Livy, Roman History , 7,2,3ff.
personal data
SURNAME Licinius Calvus, Gaius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calvus, Gaius Licinius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 364 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH before 364 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 364 BC Chr.