Marcus Plautius Silvanus (Consul 2 BC)

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Marcus Plautius Silvanus († after 9 AD) was a Roman politician and general of the early Imperial period .

Plautius Silvanus, a member of the gens Plautia , came from Trebula Suffenas in Latium . His parents were the senator of the same name , a son of Aulus Plautius , and Urgulania , a close friend of Livias , the wife of Augustus . With his wife Lartia , the daughter of a Gnaeus Lartius, he had four children: a son, who was also called Marcus Plautius Silvanus and was the praetor in 24 AD , the daughter Plautia Urgulanilla , the first wife of the future emperor Claudius , who was early deceased son Aulus Plautius Urgulanius and the son Publius Plautius Pulcher , who was raised to the patrician class by Claudius in 47/48 .

It is not known whether and when Plautius Silvanus took the first steps in the Roman official career . In the year 2 BC He was a full consul with Augustus . He then administered as proconsul of Asia and legatus Augusti pro praetore (imperial governor) of Galatia and Pamphylia provinces in Asia Minor . Then he supported Tiberius , the stepson and later successor of Augustus, with his troops in the suppression of the Pannonian uprising (6-9 AD). After initially suffering heavy losses, he won victories over the Breuker and in Dalmatia . For these successes he received the ornamenta triumphalia . The fact that he subsequently became governor of Syria , as was suspected in older research, is now considered refuted.

Marcus Plautius Silvanus was a member of the priestly college of the septemviri epulonum and was buried together with his wife Lartia and his sons Aulus Plautius Urgulanius and Publius Plautius Pulcher in the family mausoleum on Via Tiburtina . The scandals surrounding his two other children - his son Marcus killed himself after being charged with the murder of his wife Apronia and Claudius divorced his daughter Urgulanilla on suspicion of adultery and murder - happened in the 1920s he no longer.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ ancestors: CIL 14, 3606 ; AE 1972, 162 = AE 1984, 177 .
  2. ^ Praetur of Marcus Plautius Silvanus: Tacitus , Annalen 4,22 .
  3. ^ Marriage with and children of Claudius: Suetonius , Claudius 26,2 ; 27.1 .
  4. ^ Aulus Plautius Urgulanius: CIL 14, 3606 and discussion with Mary Beard : Vita inscripta . In: Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers (Ed.): La biography antique . Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-7749-2880-0 , p. 102 .
  5. ^ Career of Publius Plautius Pulcher: CIL 14, 3607 .
  6. ↑ Consulate: CIL 6, 9730 .
  7. ^ Proconsulate: AE 1968, 483 .
  8. ↑ General in Pannonia: Velleius Paterculus 2,112,4 ff .
  9. ^ Victory over the Breuker: Cassius Dio 55,34,6 f .
  10. ↑ Victory over the Dalmater: Cassius Dio 56,12,2 .
  11. ↑ Award: Cassius Dio 56,17,2 .
  12. ↑ The titulus Tiburtinus ( CIL 14, 3613 ) was related to Plautius Silvanus following Edmund Groag , today it is generally associated with Publius Sulpicius Quirinius . Cf. Werner Eck : Plautius [II 12]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , Sp. 1117.
  13. ↑ Inscriptions on the family mausoleum: CIL 14, 3606 ; CIL 14, 3607 . On the grave of Heike Niquet: Inscriptions as a medium of “propaganda” and self-portrayal in the 1st century AD. In: Gregor Weber u. a. (Ed.): Propaganda - self-portrayal - representation in the Roman Empire of the 1st Jhs. n. Chr . Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08251-4 , pp. 171-173 .
  14. ↑ Death of Apronia and subsequent processes: Tacitus, Annalen 4,22 .
  15. ^ Divorce from Claudius: Suetonius, Claudius 26.2 .
personal data
SURNAME Plautius Silvanus, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silvanus, Marcus Plautius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician and general
DATE OF BIRTH before 30 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 9