Lucius Iulius Graecinus

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Lucius Iulius Graecinus († late 39 or 40 AD) was a politician of the early Roman Empire and an agrarian writer.

Life

Lucius Iulius Graecinus came from Forum Iulii (today's Fréjus ) and initially had the rank of knight . He became a member of the Senate during the reign of Emperor Tiberius and held the offices of tribune and praetor . He was married to Iulia Procilla and had with her the son Gnaeus Iulius Agricola , who later became the father-in-law of the famous Roman historian Tacitus . Seneca praised him as a righteous, principled man . After Caligula became emperor and asked Graecinus to bring charges against Marcus Iunius Silanus, Graecinus' refusal resulted in his execution on Caligula's orders. His tomb was probably erected on the Esquiline in Rome .

Literary work

The highly educated Graecinus also emerged as an agricultural writer. He wrote a non-preserved work on viticulture, which included two books. According to the older Pliny , he is said to have used Celsus as a starting point. In any case, the work of Graecinus served Columella as an important source for his books on viticulture, where he sometimes wrote out Graecinus verbatim. Pliny states that Graecinus was one of the sources he used for writing books 14-18 of his Naturalis historia , but does not often cite him by name in the text.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ CIL 6, 41069 .
  2. ^ Tacitus, Agricola 4, 1.
  3. ↑ In his report on this, Tacitus probably means the suffect consul of 15 AD (so Ernst Hohl : Iunius 174. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswwissenschaft (RE). Volume X, 1, Stuttgart 1918, Sp. 1098.)
  4. ↑ Tacitus, Agricola 4, 1; Seneca, De beneficiis 2, 21, 5.
  5. ↑ Columella , De re rustica 1, 1, 14.
  6. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 14, 33; Pliny 's view considered wrong by Eckhard Christmann: Iulius [IV 9]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 6, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01476-2 , column 48.
  7. ^ Columella, De re rustica , Books 3 and 4.
personal data
SURNAME Iulius Graecinus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graecinus, Lucius Iulius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman senator and agrarian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC BC or 1st century
DATE OF DEATH 39 or 40