Servilius Nonianus

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Marcus Servilius Nonianus († 59 AD) was a Roman historian.

Very little is known about the life of Servilius Nonianus. His father, Marcus Servilius, was consul in 3 AD. He himself held the consulate in 35. During the reign of Emperor Claudius he served as proconsul of Africa , Ursula Vogel-Weidemann dated this governorship to the year 46/47. Tacitus endowed Servilius Nonianus, who died in 59, with great eloquence and good character. Servilius Nonianu's wife was Considia. Their daughter Servilia Considia was married to the Senator Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus .

Servilius Nonianus wrote a work on the history of Rome, but it has not been preserved and its title is not known. According to Tacitus and Quintilian , however, contemporaries must have regarded it as an important work and can be assigned to senatorial historiography . Quintilian also mentions that Servilius Nonianus performed his work in public. Tacitus very probably used this work in his Annales for the early imperial period, along with other depictions, such as the histories of Aufidius Bassus . It is not known what period Servilius Nonianus treated. It is very likely that he described the reign of Tiberius, among other things .

The fragments are collected in The Fragments of the Roman Historians (No. 79).

literature

  • Olivier Devillers: Tacite et les sources des Annales . Leuven 2003.
  • Michael M. Sage: Tacitus' Historical Works: A Survey and Appraisal . In: Rise and Fall of the Roman World . Vol. II.33.2. Berlin-New York 1990, pp. 851-1030.
  • Ronald Syme : Tacitus . 2 vols. Oxford 1958.
  • Ronald Syme: The Historian Servilius Nonianus . In: Hermes 92 (1964), p. 408ff.
  • John Wilkes: Julio-Claudian Historians . In: Classical World 65 (1972), p. 177ff.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Tacitus, Annales 6:31.
  2. ↑ Ursula Vogel-Weidemann : The governors of Africa and Asia in the years 14–68 AD. An investigation into the relationship between Princeps and Senate. Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-7749-1412-5 , pp. 145-150; Bengt E. Thomasson : Fasti Africani. Senatorial and knightly officials in the Roman provinces of North Africa from Augustus to Diocletian. Stockholm 1996, p. 36.
  3. ↑ Tacitus, Annales 14:19.
  4. ↑ Institutio oratoria 10,1,102.
  5. ↑ Olivier Devillers: Tacite et les sources des Annales . Leuven 2003, p. 15 ff .; Ronald Syme : Tacitus . Oxford 1958, Vol. 1, pp. 274 ff.
  6. ↑ Michael M. Sage: Tacitus' Historical Works: A Survey and Appraisal . In: Rise and Fall of the Roman World . Vol. II.33.2. Berlin-New York 1990, p. 1006.
personal data
SURNAME Servilius Nonianus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nonianus, Marcus Servilius; Servilius Nonianus, Marcus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC BC or 1st century
DATE OF DEATH 59