Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 16 BC)
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus († 25 ) was a Roman senator of the Augustan and Tiberian times.
Domitius Ahenobarbus was a son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus , consul in 32 BC. And married to Antonia the Elder , daughter of Mark Antony .
Domitius was 22 BC Curular aedile and in 16 BC Ordinary consul . In the year 12 BC He was proconsul of the province of Africa . As governor of Illyricum (6 BC – 1 AD), Domitius led campaigns to Germania . As the first Roman military commander to advance across the Elbe . Then he was in command of the army in Germania and laid the pontes longi ("long bridges"), a boardwalk, possibly in the marshland between the Rhine and the Ems . In 14 AD Domitius became Arval brother .
Domitius was the father of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus , the consul of the year 32 AD and father of the Emperor Nero , Domitia and Domitia Lepida .
literature
- Peter Moeller : Domitius Ahenobarbus. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 5, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1984, ISBN 3-11-009635-8 , pp. 602-604.
- Edmund Groag : Domitius 28 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 1, Stuttgart 1903, Sp. 1343-1346.
Remarks
- ↑ It is assumed that there were at least three forays across the Elbe in Augustan times. Jürgen Deininger , Germaniam Pacare. To more recent discourse on Augustus' strategy towards Germania . In: Chiron 30, 2000, p. 751.
- ^ Tacitus , Annales 4, 44, 2 .
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| SURNAME | Domitius Ahenobarbus, Lucius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ahenobarbus, Lucius Domitius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman politician of the Augustan period, consul 16 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 25th |