Marcus Magius Maximus
Marcus Magius Maximus was an eques active during the reign of the emperor Augustus. Maximus was prefect of Roman Egypt from AD 12 to 14.[1] It was thought Maximus had been appointed prefect of Egypt twice -- the only person to hold this office twice -- based almost solely on a problematic passage in Philo's In Flaccum, but John Rea has shown this passage can be read more plausibly in a different way, removing all support for this belief.[2]
While prefect of Egypt, Maximus had an obelisk that Ptolemy II Philadelphus had erected as a memorial to his wife and sister Arsinoe II in Alexandria moved to the market-place because it was in the way of the harbor.[3]
An inscription from
Syria, which would make Maximus' inferred career unusual.[5]
References
- ^ Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 17 (1975), p. 269
- Naturalis Historia, xxxvi.68f
- ^ CIL IX, 1125 = ILS 1335
- ^ Pflaum, "A propos des Préfets d'Égypte d'Arthur Stein", Latomus, 10 (1951), pp. 472f
Further reading
- Der Kleine Pauly, Band 3 (Stuttgart 1969), col. 882.