Marcus Actorius Naso
Marcus Actorius Naso was a 1st century BC Living Roman historian.
Actorius Naso was a contemporary of the dictator Gaius Iulius Caesar , about whom or about whose era he wrote a historical work mentioned but not preserved by the imperial biographer Suetonius . It apparently had an anti-Cesarian tendency. Among other things, Actorius Naso claimed that Caesar and Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso in the 1960s BC. Planned a revolt that failed because of Piso's death. Suetonius distinguishes this alleged attempt at insurrection from the end of 66 / beginning of 65 BC. So-called First Catilinarian Conspiracies followed , while Sallust considered both conspiracies to be identical. In the history of Actorius Naso it was also mentioned that Caesar had started an affair with the Mauritanian queen Eunoë .
literature
- Elimar Klebs : Actorius 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 330 f.
- Wolfgang Will : Actorius. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 . ( online )
Remarks
- ^ Suetonius, Caesar 9, 3.
- ^ Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae 18f.
- ↑ Luciano Canfora , Caesar, the democratic dictator . CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-46640-0 , p. 58.
- ^ Suetonius, Caesar 52, 1.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Actorius Naso, Marcus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Naso, Marcus Actorius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |