Ateia gens
The gens Ateia was a
plebeian family at Rome. The gens does not appear to have been particularly large or important, and is known from a small number of individuals, of whom the most illustrious was the jurist Gaius Ateius Capito, consul in AD 5.[1]
Praenomina
The only
, the three most common names at all periods of Roman history.Members
- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Marcus Ateius, the first soldier to climb the walls of Athens during the siege of that city by Sulla in 86 BC.[2]
- Lucius Ateius Capito, quaestor by 52 BC, was subsequently praetor, also in an uncertain year. He may be the father or grandfather of Gaius Ateius Capito, the jurist.[9]
- Marcus Ateius Balbus, patron and perhaps the founder of Uselis in Sardinia, of which he may have been the governor circa 38 BC.[10]
- Lucius Ateius Praetextatus, surnamed Philologus, a notable grammarian of the first century BC.
- Gaius Ateius L. f. L. n. Capito,[i] one of the most distinguished jurists of the early Empire, and consul suffectus in AD 5.[1]
- Marcus Ateius, a man of praetorian rank, was sent to Asia by Tiberius to assess damage from the earthquake of AD 17.[11]
- Ateius Sanctus, a misreading of Titus Aius Sanctus, the orator and a teacher of the emperor Commodus.[12][13]
See also
Notes
- ^ This filiation from the Fasti Capitolini. Historians have traditionally supposed him to be the son of Gaius Ateius Capito, tribune of the plebs in 55 BC.
References
- ^ a b "Capito, C. Ateius", in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, pp. 599–602.
- ^ Cornell (ed.), Fragments, vol. II, p. 487.
- ^ Cassius Dio, xxxix. 34.
- ^ Tacitus, Annales, iii. 45.
- ^ Cicero, Ad Familiares, xiii. 29, De Divinatione, i. 16.
- ^ Appian, Bellum Civile, ii. 18, v. 33, 50.
- ^ Plutarch, "The Life of Crassus", 19.
- ^ Broughton, vol. II, pp. 216, 332, 373, 381.
- ^ Broughton, vol. II, pp. 236, 246.
- ^ Broughton, vol. II, p. 392.
- ^ Tacitus, Annales, ii. 47.
- ^ Birley, Marcus Aurelius, p. 197; Lives of the Later Caesars p. 161.
- ^ Bowie, "The Importance of Sophists" , p. 59.
Bibliography
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Divinatione; Epistulae ad Familiares.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales.
- Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch), Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans (Parallel Lives).
- Appianus Alexandrinus (Appian), Bellum Civile (The Civil War).
- Lucius Cassius Dio, Roman History.
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
- T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, American Philological Association (1952–1986).
- Anthony R. Birley, Marcus Aurelius, Routledge (1966, 1987); Lives of the Later Caesars, Penguin (1976).
- E. L. Bowie, "The Importance of Sophists", in Later Greek Literature Cambridge University Press (1982).
- Tim Cornell (editor), The Fragments of the Roman Historians, Oxford University Press (2013).