Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 32 BC)
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus | |
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Aemilia Lepida Manlia | |
Children | Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus |
Parent(s) | Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Porcia |
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (died 31 BC) was a general and politician of ancient Rome in the 1st century BC.[1]
Life
During
In 42 BC he commanded a fleet of fifty ships in the
After the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC, Ahenobarbus conducted the war independently of Sextus Pompey, and with a fleet of seventy ships and two legions plundered the coasts of the Ionian Sea.
In 40 BC, through the mediation of
He became consul, according to agreement, in 32 BC, in which year the open rupture took place between Anthony and Octavian. With
Family
Ahenobarbus's father,
His wife was
Cultural depictions
The character of Domitius Enobarbus in the play Antony and Cleopatra is loosely based on this man. He is Antony's friend who deserts Antony for Caesar (Act III, sc. 13), is stricken with remorse (Act IV, sc. 6), and dies (Act IV, sc. 9).[14]
References
- ^ Smith, William (1867), "Ahenobarbus (8), Lucius Domitius", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 85–86
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 430.
- ^ Plutarch: Antony, c. 40
- ^ a b Richardson, Geoffrey Walter (1996), "Domitus Ahenobarbus, Gnaeus(4)", in Hornblower, Simon (ed.), Oxford Classical Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- ^ a b Plutarch, Antony, c. 63
- ^ Cicero, Phil. ii. 11, x. 6, Brut. 25, ad Fam. vi. 22
- ^ Appian, B. C. v. 55, 63, 65
- ^ Cassius Dio, lib. xlvii.—l
- Marcus Velleius Paterculus, ii. 763 84
- ^ Suetonius, Nero 3
- ^ Tacitus, Annales iv. 44
- ^ Plutarch: Antony, c. 87
- ISBN 9780198147312.
- ^ Button, Anne. "Enobarbus, Domitius". The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. eNotes.com. Retrieved 2008-06-20.