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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.
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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The Roman orator, poet, and historian Gaius Asinius Pollio wrote a contemporary history that provided much of the material for the Greek historians Appian and Plutarch. His history and his speeches are now lost. Pollio was born in Italy in 76 bc.
Asinius Pollio, a distinguished orator, poet and historian of the Augustan age. He was descended from a family of the Marrucini, and he may have been a grandson of the Herius Asinius, who commanded this people in the Marsic war.
As was standard, the Bibliotheca Asini Pollionis had Greek and Latin wings. "Public archives had already been housed there, but Pollio reorganized the collection, added the libraries he had acquired, and opened the whole to the public about 37 B.C., making it the first-known public library in Rome” (Harris, History of Libraries in the Western ...
Jul 23, 2017 · Pollio lived during one of the most fascinating and pivotal times in Rome’s history. He saw the end of the Roman Republic and the Hellenistic Age, and the birth of the Roman Empire. He rubbed shoulders with some of the titans of Roman history, including Julius Caesar and Augustus.
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 ...
