Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi Calpurnianus

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Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi Calpurnianus (* around 114 BC) was a politician of the late Roman Republic .

The form of the name shows that Piso came from the family of the Calpurnii Pisones and was adopted by a pupius. Piso received his training as a speaker from Staseas , a peripatetic , and the famous Roman orator Lucius Licinius Crassus . He also taught himself; Marcus Tullius Cicero , who is a few years his junior, names Piso among his teachers. Later, Cicero had Piso appear as a figure in his dialogue De finibus bonorum et malorum and present the peripatetic teachings.

Piso began his senatorial career ( cursus honorum ) with the bursary in 83 BC. He was supposed to serve under the popular consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus , but refused. Probably 72 BC He was praetor . In the following three years from 71 to 69 BC He was proconsul in Spain (probably the province of Hispania ulterior as the successor of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius ). For military success there, he received a triumphal procession from the Senate . In 67 BC He was one of the legates with a proprietary empire who took action against the pirates under Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus. Piso fell in command in the Propontis and on the Bosporus . He also served under Pompey in the following years; for the year 63 BC He is mentioned as a legate during the siege of Jerusalem.

In 62 BC In BC, Pompey requested that the consul elections be postponed for the following year so that his legate Piso could apply as a candidate (it is unclear whether this requirement was met). Piso gained the office and was together with Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger consul in the year 61 BC. He had against his will for the establishment of a special court against Publius Clodius Pulcher, who had been accused of the crime . He lost his political support and did not get the Syria province he was actually aiming for.

Pupius Piso may have been after the outbreak of the civil war in 49 BC. BC again legate of Pompey and recruited troops on Delos , but it was probably his son Marcus Pupius Piso.

literature

Overview representations

  • Jens Bartels: Pupius [I 3]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 , Sp. 601.
  • Richard Goulet: Piso Frugi Calpurni (a) nus (Marcus Pupius). In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Vol. 5, part 1, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-271-07335-8 , pp. 622 f.

Investigations

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cicero, Brutus 240 and 310 .
  2. ^ Cicero, De finibus 5, passim ; see. Cicero, ad Atticum 13, 19, 4 .
  3. ^ Cicero, in Verrem 2, 1, 37 .
  4. ^ Cicero, in Pisonem 62.
  5. ↑ Flavius ​​Josephus , Jüdische Antiquities 14, 59; Jewish War 1, 144.
  6. ↑ Cassius Dio 37, 44, 3; Plutarch, Pompey 44, 1.
  7. ↑ Josephus, Jüdische Antiquities 14, 231.
  8. ^ Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton , The magistrates of the Roman republic . Volume 3: Supplement . Scholars Press, Atlanta 1986, p. 176.
personal data
SURNAME Pupius Piso Frugi Calpurnianus, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 1st century BC Chr.