Messius Phoebus Severus

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Flavius ​​Messius Phoebus Severus († before 490) was a Roman senator and Patricius .

Severus was from Rome and was a pagan . He must have lived in Alexandria for a long time and studied philosophy there. Between 467 and 469 he followed Anthemius to Rome in the hope that under the new emperor the empire would regain its former size. In 470 he was consulate in Rome . At a not exactly determinable time during Anthemius' reign, but probably after the consulate, he was also Praefectus urbi of Rome. In this position Severus also restored part of the Colosseum , as can be seen from a building and honorary inscription found there. Anthemius also made him Patricius . After the fall of Anthemius in 472, Severus returned bitterly to Alexandria, where he died before 490.

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literature

  • Dirk Henning: Messius Phoebus Severus and the chronology of Praefecti Urbi under Emperor Anthemius (467-472). In: Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy . Volume 108, 1995, pp. 145-158 ( PDF; 78.7 kB ).
  • Pierre Maraval, Richard Goulet: Severus (Messius Phoebus). In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Volume 6, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2-271-08989-2 , pp. 250-252.
  • John Robert Martindale: Messius Phoebus Severus. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , pp. 1005-1006.
  • Elżbieta Szabat: Severos. In: Paweł Janiszewski, Krystyna Stebnicka, Elżbieta Szabat: Prosopography of Greek Rhetors and Sophists of the Roman Empire. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-871340-1 , pp. 332 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Henning: Messius Phoebus Severus and the chronology of Praefecti Urbi under Emperor Anthemius (467-472). In: Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy. Volume 108, 1995, pp. 145-158, here p. 149.
  2. ↑ CIL 6, 32091
personal data
SURNAME Messius Phoebus Severus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul and Patricius
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century or 5th century
DATE OF DEATH before 490
Place of death Alexandria