Aelius Antipater
Aelius Antipater or Antipater of Hierapolis (
rhetorician
.
He was a son of Zeuxidemus, and a pupil of
Geta.[1] He was promoted to the consular rank in his early 50s by Septimius Severus, who sent him to govern Bithynia and Pontus
. Yet, since Antipater used his sword too freely, he was deprived of his office. As Philostratus reports, Antipater then retired to his native place, where he died at the age of 68 of voluntary starvation.
His nomen is derived from the
Aelia gens, which would indicate that an ancestor of his had received Roman citizenship while Trajan or Hadrian was emperor (since Aelius was their family name). He also wrote a lost biography of Severus.[2]
Notes
- ISBN 9781134694778.
- ^ Philostratus Vitae sophistarum ii. 24, 25. § 4, 26. § 3; Galen, De Theriac. ad Pison. ii. p. 458; Eudoc. p. 57.
Sources
- Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (180-235 n.Chr.) (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1989), p. 261.
- James H. Oliver, "The Sacred Gerusia and the Emperor's Consilium", Hesperia, 36 (1967), pp. 329–335.
- Fergus Millar, "The Greek East and Roman Law: The Dossier of M. Cn. Licinius Rufinus", Journal of Roman Studies, 89 (1999), pp. 90–108.
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