Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso (consul 7 BC)

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Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso († 20 in Rome , also called Pater to distinguish it from his son of the same name ) was a Roman politician at the time of the emperors Augustus and Tiberius from the plebeian family of the Calpurnians .

biography

Piso was in the year 7 BC. Together with Tiberius , son-in-law of Augustus and later emperor , consul . Between 6 BC BC and AD 9 he held the proconsulate of Africa , probably around the middle of this period. In 9/10 he was legate of Hispania citerior . Although he was said to have made a lot of money in his own pocket in Spain, Piso became governor of Syria in the year 17 . There he and his wife Munatia Plancina had violent arguments with Germanicus , such as Tacitusand Suetonius attest. When Germanicus died of unknown causes, Piso is said to have publicly expressed his satisfaction. Because of the numerous difficulties with Germanicus, Piso was charged with high treason in the year 20; before conviction, he voluntarily passed away. His name was deleted from the lists of the Arval brothers , and his property was confiscated by the state.

His sons were Gnaeus (the younger) and Marcus Calpurnius Piso , of whom the former had to change his name to Lucius after his father was sentenced. A Calpurnia Cn is also known . Pisonis filia (Calpurnia, daughter of Gnaeus Piso), of which it is not certain whether she is the daughter of the older or the younger bearer of the name, i.e. whether she was the daughter or granddaughter of the consul from 7 BC. Can be seen. While Eck, Caballos and Fernández advocate the second variant, Platschek refuted it in an essay in 2009.

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For a long time the main source for the death of Germanicus and the trial against Piso was the depiction in the 2nd and 3rd book of the annals of the Roman historian Tacitus. A few years ago a bronze inscription was found in Spain with the complete text of the senate decision that ended the trial after Piso's death, the Senatus consultum de Gnaeo Pisone patre , which provides new information about the course of the trial, but also the family circumstances of the convict.

Piso's obituary was negative, not only because of the clash with Germanicus in Syria, which led to high treason. Seneca tells of atrocities of which Piso, as governor, was guilty. According to Strabo , he had mocked the province of Africa, it was strewn with oases like a leopard with spots.

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  1. ↑ Bengt E. Thomasson : Fasti Africani. Senatorial and knightly officials in the Roman provinces of North Africa from Augustus to Diocletian. Paul Åström, Stockholm 1996, ISBN 91-7042-153-6 , p. 24.
  2. ^ Tacitus , Annals 2,34; Suetonius , Tiberius 52.3 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Tacitus, Annalen 2,55-71; 2.76-79; 3,12-14 and Suetonius, Caligula 3,3 ( online ).
  4. ^ Johannes Platschek : Roman law in bronze. The Senate resolution de Cn. Pisone patre as the source of Roman family and inheritance law. In: forum historiae iuris , 2009 ( online ).
  5. ↑ AE 1996, 885
  6. ↑ Seneca, De Ira 1,18,3 ff.
  7. ↑ Strabo, Geographica 2,5,33.
personal data
SURNAME Calpurnius Piso, Gnaeus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piso, Gnaeus Calpurnius; Piso Father
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician at the time of the emperors Augustus and Tiberius
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 20th
Place of death Rome