Pomponianus
Pomponianus was a Roman who lived in the 1st century.
He is a central figure in the first letter to Vesuvius of the younger Pliny . During the eruption of nearby Vesuvius on August 24, 79 AD, he postponed his own escape from his villa in Stabiae when Pliny the Elder sought refuge with him. Despite his best efforts, he could not prevent his death the next morning.
The Pomponianus of the Letter of Vesuvius is apparently identical to Gaius Tullius Capito Pomponianus Plotius Firmus, the suffect consul of the year 84 AD. He belonged to the rich and noble, because in addition to his political offices he owned a villa in the prominent area on the Gulf of Naples and he was well known to Pliny and Tacitus . The key biographical data can only be roughly estimated: he is attested in inscriptions as a proconsul of Africa for about 96 AD , but because Pliny the Elder J. was able to safely falsify his role in the eruption of Vesuvius, Pomponianus must have died some time before the writing of the Letter to Vesuvius, i.e. before 107 AD. Possibly Pomponius' father was Plotius Firmus, the Praetorian prefect of the year 68 AD.
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literature
- Edmund Groag : Firmus 2). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 1, Stuttgart 1910, Col. 2381 f.
- Eckard Lefèvre : From Romanism to Aestheticism: Studies on the letters of the younger Pliny. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009
- René Faßbender: The Vesuvius letters of the younger Pliny , GRIN, Munich 2003
Web links
- Essay on the death of Pliny [1]
Remarks
- ↑ Pliny, epistula 6, 16.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pomponianus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tullius Capito Pomponianus Plotius Firmus, Gaius (presumed full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman senator (?) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 79 |