Marcus Atius Balbus

Marcus Atius (also: Attius ) Balbus (* late 2nd century BC in Aricia ) was a Roman senator of the late republic and grandfather of Emperor Augustus .

He came from a plebeian family from Aricia (today's Ariccia ), who allegedly had produced several senators, and was related to Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus on his mother's side .

In a not exactly known year, at the latest 60 BC. BC, Balbus dressed the praetur . Possibly he became governor of Sardinia . 59 BC BC he belonged together with Pompey to a commission which, based on the agricultural laws of the consul Gaius Iulius Caesar , was supposed to distribute lands in Campania among the people.

Balbus was married to Iulia , one of Caesar's two sisters, and had two daughters with her, the elder Atia , who was with Gaius Octavius (later Augustus came from this marriage) and, after his death, with Lucius Marcius Philippus (consul 56 BC). ) was married, as well as the younger Atia, married to Lucius Marcius Philippus (suffect consul 38 BC) , the son of her sister's second husband from a previous marriage.

literature

Balbus IV. M. Atius Balbus . In: William Smith (Ed.): Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . tape 1 : Abaeus – Dysponteus . Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1870, p. 455 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Wolfgang Will : Attius [I 1]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 261.
Elimar Klebs : Attius 11 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Col. 2253 f.

Remarks

^ Suetonius , Augustus 4 . There also allegations of allegedly low and non-Italian ancestry going back to the civil war.
↑ Marcus Tullius Cicero , Philippicae 3:16; Suetonius, Augustus 4.
^ Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton , The magistrates of the Roman republic. Volume 2, 1952, p. 182.
↑ Cicero, ad Atticum 2, 12, 1 ; Suetonius, Augustus 4.

personal data
SURNAME	Atius Balbus, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Balbus, Marcus Atius; Attius Balbus, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman praetor and grandfather of the emperor Augustus
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd century BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aricia
DATE OF DEATH	1st century BC Chr.

[1] Suetonius , Augustus 4 . There also allegations of allegedly low and non-Italian ancestry going back to the civil war.

[2] Marcus Tullius Cicero , Philippicae 3:16; Suetonius, Augustus 4.

[3] Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton , The magistrates of the Roman republic. Volume 2, 1952, p. 182.

[4] Cicero, ad Atticum 2, 12, 1 ; Suetonius, Augustus 4.