Curated category
Roman quaestors
- CiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero was born on the 3rd of January 106 BC in the hill town of Arpinum. His family belonged to the wealthy equestrian order, yet his name…
- TiberiusTiberius Claudius Nero stood before the rostra in Rome on 32 BC. He was nine years old when he delivered the eulogy for his biological father.
- VespasianTitus Flavius Vespasianus entered the world on the 17th of November AD 9 in a small village north-east of Rome called Falacrinae.
- Marcus Junius BrutusMarcus Junius Brutus was born in late 85 BC into the illustrious plebeian gens Junia. His father, also named Marcus Junius Brutus, served as tribune of the…
- Lucius VerusLucius Ceionius Commodus entered the world on the 15th of December 130 in Rome. He was the first-born son of Avidia and Lucius Aelius Caesar, who served as…
- HadrianPublius Aelius Hadrianus drew his first breath on the 24th of January in the year 76. He emerged into a world centered in Italica, a Roman town founded by…
- CaligulaGaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was born on the 31st of August in AD 12 at Antium. He was only four or five years old when he accompanied his father…
- Gaius Cassius LonginusGaius Cassius Longinus emerged from the gens Cassia, a family that had held prominence in Rome since the 6th century BC.
- TitusTitus Flavius Vespasianus entered the world on the 30th of December 39 AD in Rome. His family name was Flavia, a gens that rose from obscurity to imperial…
- Antoninus PiusTitus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Antoninus entered the world on the 19th of September 86 near Lanuvium in Italy. His father held the consulship of 89 and…