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Gaius Asinius Pollio was a Roman senator and orator active during the Principate. He was ordinary consul for 23 with Gaius Antistius Vetus as his colleague. He was the oldest son of Gaius Asinius Gallus; his brother was Marcus Asinius Agrippa, consul in 25. Pollio's mother was Vipsania Agrippina.
Gaius Asinius Pollio (75 BC – AD 4) was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic, and historian, whose lost contemporaneous history provided much of the material used by the historians Appian and Plutarch. Pollio was most famously a patron of Virgil and a friend of Horace and poems to him were dedicated by both men.
Gaius Asinius Pollio (born 76 bc, Italy—died ad 4, Tusculum, near Rome) was a Roman orator, poet, and historian who wrote a contemporary history that, although lost, provided much of the material for Appian and Plutarch. Pollio moved in the literary circle of Catullus and entered public life in 56.
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Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul AD 23) Gaius, or Caius Asinius Pollio, son of Gaius Asinius Gallus and Vipsania Agrippina, was a Roman politician. He was consul in AD 23 alongside Gaius Antistius Vetus.
Oct 24, 2019 · This chapter examines the activities of Gaius Asinius Pollio in building a cosmopolitan, intellectual community in Rome in the course of the late 40s and 30s bce. Pollio’s reimagination of the Atrium Libertatis as a museum and center of research and performance served to elide cultural and imperial concerns. The institution effectively forged ...
Apr 24, 2016 · Genealogy for Gaius Asinius Pollio, Consul of the Roman Empire (-11 - 45) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
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Jul 23, 2017 · When I came across the name of Gaius Asinius Pollio in relation to the founding of the first public library in ancient Rome, I had to learn more! Pollio lived during one of the most fascinating and pivotal times in Rome’s history.
