Some Important Roman Career Types

SOME IMPORTANT ROMAN CAREER TYPES STATUS: EXAMPLE: SENATORIAL: LUCIUS CALPURNIUS PISO • • • • • • • • • EQUESTRIAN/ SENATORIAL: son of Piso Caesoninus (consul of 58 B.C.), and thus Julius Caesar's brother-in-law; born ca. 48 B.C. proconsul of Transpadine Gaul: 16–13 B.C. consul ordinarius 15 B.C. in Pamphylia, 14/13 (as Legate of Agrippa?) Proconsul in Macedonia and Legate of Augustus (in a campaign against the Bessi, for which he was granted the ornaments of a triumph): 12–10 B.C. Proconsul of Asia: 3/2 B.C. Legatus Augusti pro praetore in Syria: ca. 4–1 B.C. Praefectus Urbi ( A. D. 13–32) [head of the police force of Rome] given a state funeral in 32 (Tacitus Annales VI. 11.3) CAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS (Pliny the Younger) [H.-G. Pflaum, Carrières équestres (1960) #45] • • • • • • • • • • • • Born late 60 or early 61; nephew and adopted son of Pliny the Elder Decemvir stlitibus iudicandis: 81 A.D. Tribunus militum of Legio III Gallica in Syria Sevir Equitum Romanorum Quaestor Augusti: 88 or 89 Tribunus Plebis: 91 Praetor: 93 Praefectus Aerarii militaris: 94–96 Praefectus Aerarii Saturni: 98–100 Consul: September-October, 100 elected Augur: 103 Curator alvei Tiberis et riparum et cloacarum urbis: 104–106 • EQUESTRIAN: TIBERIUS. IULIUS ALEXANDER [H.-G. Pflaum, Carrières équestres (1960) #17] • • • • • • • • • SLAVE/ FREEDMAN: Special envoy of Trajan in Bithynia: September 111–113. A Jew of Greek culture from Alexandria in Egypt; son of Alexander Lysimachos the Arabarch, and nephew of Philo Judaeus. Granted citizenship by Tiberius Epistrategos of the Thebaid region of Egypt (attested in 42) Procurator of Judaea: 46 A.D. named by Nero in 63 A.D. as minister bello to Corbulo [Tacitus Annales XV. 28] named by Nero in 66 A.D. as Praefectus Aegypti [Josephus Bellum Judaicum II. 15.1] with Mucianus (Legatus Augusti of Syria), the leading promoter of Vespasian's bid for the Empire in 69 a commander of the army of Judaea under Titus during the siege of Jerusalem Praefectus praetorio TIBERIUS. CLAUDIUS ETRUSCUS [Statius Silvae III. 3.60 ff.] • • • • • • • • • came from Smyrna as a slave freed by Tiberius attended on Caligula in Gaul appointed by Claudius as governor of Britannicus A rationibus to Nero took part in Vespasian's triumph: 71 A.D. raised to Equestrian rank: ca. 73/4 exiled to Campania by Domitian, but soon recalled died under Domitian, aged ca. 90