Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi

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Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi (* around 180 BC, † after 120 BC) was a Roman historian and politician.

In 149 BC He was a tribune of the people , 133 BC. BC Consul together with Publius Mucius Scaevola , where he showed himself to be an opponent of Tiberius Gracchus . In 120 BC He was a censor.

As a historian, he wrote a history of Rome in seven books, the Annales , which stretched from the founding of the city to his time. He is a representative of the older annals, which also include Lucius Cassius Hemina and Quintus Fabius Pictor .

literature

  • Hans Beck , Uwe Walter : The early Roman historians. Volume 1: From Fabius Pictor to Cn. Gellius (= texts on research. Vol. 76). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2001, ISBN 3-534-14757-X , pp. 282–329.
  • Dieter Flach : Roman historiography. 3rd, revised edition. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1998, ISBN 3-534-13709-4 , pp. 74-79.
  • Gary Forsythe: The historian L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi and the Roman annalistic tradition. University Press of America, Lanham MD et al. 1994, ISBN 0-8191-9742-4 .
  • Iris Hofmann-Löbl: The Calpurnii. Political activity and family continuity (= European university publications. Series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences. 705). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1996, ISBN 3-631-49668-0 , pp. 68-83, (at the same time: Gießen University, phil. Dissertation, 1994).
  • Kurt Latte : The historian L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi. In: Kurt Latte: Small writings on religion, law, literature and language of the Greeks and Romans. Beck, Munich 1968, pp. 837-847.
  • Werner Suerbaum : L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi. In: Werner Suerbaum (Ed.): The archaic literature. From the beginning to Sulla's death (= Handbook of the Latin Literature of Antiquity. Vol. 1). CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-48134-5 , pp. 421-425.
personal data
SURNAME Calpurnius Piso Frugi, Lucius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman historian and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC Chr.