Rufius Gennadius Probus Orestes

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Consular Diptych of Orestes, Victoria and Albert Museum

Rufius Gennadius Probus Orestes was a Roman patricius and consul in 530.

Orestes was probably a son of the consul of 502, who was called Rufius Magnus Faustus Avienus . He fled to St. Peter's Basilica with other Patricii on December 17, 546 when the Ostrogoth king Totila conquered Rome. Orestes was then taken from Totila to southern Italy with other senators. During the conquest of Acherontis on the border between Lucania and Calabria, he met the Byzantine general Johannes in the summer of 547 and was sent to Sicily with the senators there.

literature

  • John Robert Martindale: Rufius Gennadius Probus Orestes. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 3A, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0-521-20160-8 , p. 956.
  • Johannes Sundwall : Treatises on the history of late Romanism (= Öfversigt af Finska Vetenskaps-Societenens förhandlingar. B: Humanistiska vetenskaper. Vol. 60, No. 2, 1917/18, ZDB -ID 448249-9 ). Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten, Helsingfors 1919, p. 144.
personal data
SURNAME Rufius Gennadius Probus Orestes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orestes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman patricius and consul 530
DATE OF BIRTH before 530
DATE OF DEATH after 547