Marcus Perperna (envoy)
Marcus Perperna († after 126 BC) was a 2nd century BC Living Roman politician and diplomat.
Life
Marcus Perperna came from the (originally Etruscan ) noble family Perperna . According to an inscription, he was probably the son of a Lucius Perperna . He is mentioned for the first time in the extant sources, the Roman historians Titus Livius and Appian , at the beginning of 168 BC. On the occasion of the war that the Romans waged against the Macedonian king Perseus . At that time he was sent by Appius Claudius Centho , who was in command in Illyria , together with Lucius Petillius on a diplomatic mission to the Illyrian King Genthios . However, he accused the two Roman envoys of espionage and had them arrested. The praetor Lucius Anicius Gallus , who had taken over the supreme command in Illyria as the successor to Claudius Centho, took military action against Genthios because of the capture of the ambassadors and was able to bring the war to a successful end after just one month by calling Skodra, the capital of the enemy king, conquered. There he was also able to free the two Romans who had been imprisoned. As a satisfaction Perperna received the order to receive the surrender of the family of Genthios in Meteon and to announce the news of the victory over the king in Rome .
Perperna probably one of the four Romans, who at that time about the Proxenie of Kierion in Thessaly received. In any case, he was the father of the consul of the same name from 130 BC. BC, which put down the revolt of Aristonikos in Asia Minor . Perperna survived his son and was born in 126 BC. Expelled from Rome because he had assumed Roman citizenship .
literature
- Friedrich Münzer : Perperna 3. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIX, 1, Stuttgart 1937, column 893 f.
- Peter C. Nadig : Perperna 2. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , Sp. 597.
Remarks
- ↑ a b Inscriptiones Graecae (IG) IX, 2, 258, line 7.
- ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita 44, 27, 11 and 44, 30, 11; Appian, Macedonike 18, 1 and Illyrike 9; Plutarch , Aemilius Paullus 13, 2 (without giving the names of the ambassadors).
- ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita 44, 32, 1.
- ↑ Livius, Ab urbe condita 44, 32, 2 ff. (After Polybios ).
- ↑ Valerius Maximus , Facta et dicta memorabilia 3, 4, 5.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Perperna, Marcus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd century BC Chr. |