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Gaius Pomponius Graecinus

100 BC – AD 38

Roman senator and consul active during the reign of Tiberius

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About Gaius Pomponius Graecinus

Lived 100 BC – AD 38. Gaius Pomponius Graecinus was a Roman politician and military personnel.

Gaius (or Publius) Pomponius Graecinus was a Roman politician who was suffect consul in AD 16 as the colleague of Gaius Vibius Rufus. He was probably a novus homo raised to the Senate by Augustus. He was a friend and patron of the poet Ovid, who addressed three letters of his Epistulae ex Ponto ("Letters from the Black Sea") to him around AD 10.

He married Asinia, daughter of Vipsania Agrippina and Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus. Pomponia Graecina, wife of Aulus Plautius, was probably his daughter or granddaughter by Asinia. He, or his brother, Lucius Pomponius Flaccus, who was consul in 17 and later imperial Syrian governor in 35, may have married Vistilia (mother of empress Milonia Caesonia) and had two sons: Publius Pomponius Secundus and Quintus Pomponius Secundus.

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Important facts

Born
100 BC, Gubbio
Birth century
Died
AD 38
Nationality
Positions held
Ancient Roman senator, Roman consul
Also known as
Publius Pomponius Graecinus

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Roman senator and consul active during the reign of Tiberius

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Gaius Pomponius Graecinus was born in 100 BC in Gubbio.

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Gaius Pomponius Graecinus died in AD 38.

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Gaius Pomponius Graecinus was a politician and military personnel.

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Gaius Pomponius Graecinus was Roman.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Gaius Pomponius Graecinus

· Wikidata: Q984421

· DBpedia: Gaius Pomponius Graecinus

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