Gaius Licinius Macer

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Gaius Licinius Macer († 66 BC ) was a politician in the late Roman Republic and, as a historian, is counted among the "younger annals ".

Macer was born in 73 BC. Chr. Tribune and around 68 BC BC Praetor . Politically, he was an opponent of the Optimates . In Sallust he is mentioned as a fighter for the rights of the people. Two years later, Marcus Tullius Cicero managed to get him convicted of bribery and extortion, whereupon he committed suicide.

As a historian, he wrote a history of Rome in 16 books, which he gave the form of annals and fragments of which have been preserved. We know from Titus Livius and Dionysios of Halicarnassus , who both used the work, that it began with the founding of Rome and that Pyrrhus appeared in the 2nd book. Livy has doubts about Macer's credibility and assumes that he misrepresented events in order to increase the honor of his gens Licinia (7, 9, 5), but also notes that Macer used original sources such as the linen rolls (libri lintei) (4, 7, 12; 4, 20, 8; 4, 23, 2).

Macer was the father of the poet Gaius Licinius Macer Calvus .

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  • Hermann Peter (Ed.): Historicorum Romanorum reliquiae . Volume 1, 1914 (reprinted 1967).

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SURNAME Macer, Gaius Licinius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Licinius Macer, Gaius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 66 BC Chr.