Gaius Antius Aulus Julius Quadratus

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Gaius Antius Aulus Julius Quadratus (

Ancient Greek: Γάϊος Ἄντιος Αὖλος Ἰούλιος Αὔλου υἱὸς Κουαδρᾶτος; fl. 1st and 2nd centuries) was a Roman senator from Pergamon, who was appointed consul
twice, in AD 94 and then in AD 105, the first senator from the Eastern Mediterranean to achieve the ordinary consulship.

Biography

Some hold the view he was born in

Attalid dynasty and the kings of Galatia.[5]

emperor Vespasian sometime during the 70s,[6] Quadratus was also co-opted into the Arval Brethren at some point before March of 78 when he is first mentioned in their Acta Arvalia. From 79-80, he was proconsular legate to the proconsul of Asia, Marcus Ulpius Traianus, father of the future Emperor Trajan.[7] He would subsequently become a close personal friend of the Emperor Trajan, who honoured him as an amicus clarissimus ('most brilliant friend').[7]

Syme infers that Quadratus served as proconsular legate in

Bithynia et Pontus from 80-81.[8] Quadratus was appointed governor of the public province of Crete and Cyrenaica in 84/85.[9] He is mentioned again in the Acta Arvalia from January 86 to May 89, indicating he was residing at Rome during that time.[10] In the gap after May 89, he served the emperor as governor of Lycia et Pamphylia from the year 89 to 93[11]

At some point between 89 and 94, Quadratus added the prefix "Gaius Antius" to his name, likely as a requirement for accepting a legacy from an acquaintance.

Syria, where he was stationed from AD 100 to 104.[13]

As a reward for his long service he was elected ordinary consul in AD 105. He was the first senator of eastern origin to achieve this post.

Imperial cult, the Trajaneum, dedicated to the emperor Trajan and Zeus.[15] The epithet under which Zeus was worshipped in this temple, Philius ('of friendship') may have been a reference to the friendship between Trajan and Quadratus.[16] Also in 114/5, Quadratus established regular games, the Traianeia Deiphilia in honor of Trajan and Zeus Philius.[2][17]

It is unclear whether he lived into the reign of Hadrian or saw the completion of the Trajaneum in AD 129.[7]

Sources

  • Bowersock, Glen Warren
    , Studies on the Eastern Roman Empire: Social, Economic and Administrative History, Religion, Historiography, Keip Verlag (1994)
  • Longenecker, Bruce W., The Lost Letters of Pergamum, Baker Academic, (2003)
  • Syme, Ronald, Some Arval Brethren, Clarendon Press (1980)
  • Syme, Ronald, Historia Augusta Papers, Clarendon Press (1983)
  • Weisser, B. (2005). "Pergamum as Paradigm". In Howgego, C. J.; Heuchert, V.; Burnett, A. (eds.). Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 135–142.

References

  1. ^ Birley, Anthony (1997). "Hadrian And Greek Senators". Zeitschrifit fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 116: 209-245 (p. 227 specifically) – via JSTOR.
  2. ^ a b Longenecker, p. 160
  3. ^ a b c Olli Salomies, Adoptive and polyonymous nomenclature in the Roman Empire (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), p. 31
  4. ^ Syme, Arval Brethren, p. 52
  5. ^ Weisser 2005, p. 137.
  6. ^ Bowersock, p. 358
  7. ^ a b c d e f Weisser 2005, p. 138.
  8. ^ Syme, Arval Brethren, p. 26
  9. ^ Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), p. 309
  10. ^ Syme, Arval Brethren, p. 27
  11. ^ Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten", pp. 316-320
  12. ^ Syme, Arval Brethren, p. 18
  13. ^ Syme, Historia, p. 181
  14. ^ a b Weisser 2005, p. 139.
  15. ^ Weisser 2005, pp. 139–140.
  16. ^ Weisser 2005, p. 140.
  17. ^ Weisser 2005, p. 141.

Further reading

Political offices
Preceded byas ordinary consuls
Marcus Lollius Paulinus Decimus Valerius Asiaticus Saturninus
 Succeeded by
Lucius Silius Decianus,
and Titus Pomponius Bassus
as suffect consuls
Preceded by
Marcus Asinius Marcellus
as ordinary consuls
Consul of the Roman Empire
AD 105
with Tiberius Julius Candidus Marius Celsus
II 		Succeeded byas suffect consuls
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