Marcus Atius Balbus
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Marcus Atius Balbus (105 – 51 BC) was a 1st-century BC Roman who served as a
Roman Emperor
.
Early life
Balbus was born and raised in
Aricia into a political family and was the son and heir of the elder Marcus Atius Balbus (148 – 87 BC). His mother was Pompeia, the sister to consul Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, father of Pompey Magnus, a member of the First Triumvirate with Julius Caesar and Marcus Licinius Crassus
.
The family of the elder Balbus came from a
stammer
.
Career
During the consulship of Julius Caesar in 59 BC, Balbus was appointed along with Pompey to a board of commissioners under a
stated that Pompey would say as a joke about Balbus, that he was not a person of any importance.Personal life
He married
Marcia.[2]
Another Atia, who was married to a Gaius Junius Silanus, has been speculated to have existed by Madvig and Syme.[3][4] This Atia may have been a granddaughter of Balbus and Julia through their son and his marriage to a Claudia.[5]
Death
Balbus died in 51 BC.
See also
References
- ISBN 9780198143581.
- ISBN 9781440804212.
- ISBN 9789519690216.
- ^ Craven, Maxwell (8 December 2019). "The Imperial Families of Ancient Rome".
- ISBN 978-0-19-814731-2.)
A third Atia can now be conjured up.
(Limited Previes: "Atia, wife of Marcius Philippus (suff. 38 BC)" and "A daughter (Atia) would supply a wife for C. Silanus" of this page in Google Books
Sources
- Suetonius, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Augustus
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060511155339/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0464.html