Quintus Calpurnius Piso

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Quintus Calpurnius Piso was a Roman politician and consul in 135 BC. Chr.

Piso, son and grandson of Gaius Calpurnius Piso, was a member of the widespread Pisonen, one of the leading plebeian families of the Roman nobility in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. Without particularly prominent, he completed the political career usual for families of his kind. As praetor he settled a border dispute between Sparta and Messenia .

A few years later he was 135 BC. Consul and fought without luck in Spain against the Numantines .

Remarks

  1. ^ Wilhelm Dittenberger , Sylloge 240, 43 = inscriptions from Olympia 52 .
  2. ↑ Appian, Iberike 83 ( English translation ).

literature

  • Iris Hofmann-Löbl: The Calpurnii. Political activity and family continuity (= European university publications. Series 3: History and its auxiliary sciences. 705). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1996, ISBN 3-631-49668-0 , pp. 61-67, (at the same time: Gießen, Universität, phil. Dissertation, 1994).
personal data
SURNAME Calpurnius Piso, Quintus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piso, Quintus Calpurnius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC Chr.