List of Roman governors of Bithynia and Pontus
This is a list of governors of the Roman province of Bithynia et Pontus:
As a Senatorial province
[edit]- Gaius Papirius Carbo (61—59 BC);[1]
- Gaius Memmius (57—56 BC);[2]
- Gaius Caecilius Cornutus (56 BC);[3]
- Publius Silius (51 BC);[4]
- Aulus Plautius (49—48 BC);[5]
- Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus (47/46 BC);[6]
- Quintus Marcius Crispus (45 BC);[7]
- Lucius Tillius Cimber (44 BC);[8]
- Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (40—34 BC);[9]
- Thorius Flaccus (29/28 — 28/27 BC);[10]
- Appius Claudius Pulcher (27/26 BC);
- Gaius Marcius Censorinus (c. 14/13 BC);
- Lucius Licinius C[...] (c. AD 11/12);
- Manius Ota[cilius Crassus?] (reign of Augustus?);
- Marcus Granius Marcellus (AD 14/15);
- Publius Vitellius (AD 17/18);
- Lucius Mindius Balbus (c. 43–47);
- Gaius Cadius Rufus (47/48);
- Publius Pasidienus Firmus (48/49 — 49/50);
- Lucius Mindius Pollio (after 42);
- Lucius Dunius Severus (after 42);
- Attius Laco (54/55?);
- Marcus Tarquitius Priscus (59/60?);
- Petronius Niger (between 62 and 69);
- Lucius Venuleius Montanus[11] (c. 63);
- Marcus Plancius Varus (70/71? or 71/72?);
- Marcus Maecius Rufus (c. 71/72 or 72/73);
- Marcus Salvidienus Proculus (c. 75/76);
- Marcus Salvidienus Asprenas (c. 76/77);
- Velius Paulus (c. 79/80);
- Lucius Minicius Rufus (81/82?);
- Aulus Bucius Lappius Maximus (82/83?);
- Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus (c. 83/84);
- Lucius Julius Marinus (88/89 or 89/90);
- Tullius Justus (96/97);
- Gaius Julius Bassus (101/102?);
- Varenus Rufus (105/106);
- Anicius Maximus (before 108/109);
- Publius Severus Calvus (108/109);
- Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) (c. 109 — 111) ;
- Gaius Julius Cornutus Tertullus (111 — 114/115?);
- Quintus Cornelius Senecio Annianus (reign of Hadrian)
- Gaius Julius Severus (134)
- Quintus Voconius Saxa Fidus (142/143 ?)
- Lucius Coelius Festus (146/147 ?)
- Lucius Hedius Rufus Lollianus Avitus (159)[12]
- Marcus Roscius Murena (c. 161/162)
As an Imperial province
[edit]- Lucius Albinius Saturninus (c. 180)[12]
- Severus (before 183)[13]
- Marcus Didius Severus Julianus (between 186 and 189)[13]
- Lucius Fabius Cilo (193/194)[13]
- Marcus Silius Messala (between 193 and 197)[14]
- Quintus Tineius Sacerdos (198/199)[13]
- Marcus Cl(audius) Demetrius (between 199 and 217)[13]
- Tiberius Claudius Callipianus Italicus (between 202 and 205)[13]
- Aelius Antipater (after 204)[15]
- Gaius Claudius Attalus Paterculianus (between 193 and 214)
- Caecilius Aristo (215/216 ? - 217/218)
- (Claudius Aelius ?) Pollio (c. 218)[15]
- Lucius Egnatius Victor Lollianus (between 230 and 235)[15]
- Marcus Aurelius Artemidorus (245/246 - 247/248)
- Velleius Macrinus (c. 269)
References
[edit]- ^ Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (New York: American Philological Association, 1952), Vol. II, pp. 184, 190
- ^ Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II p. 202
- ^ Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II p. 209
- ^ Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II pp. 242, 250
- ^ Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II pp. 262, 276
- ^ Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II p. 289; Vol. III p. 219
- ^ Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II pp. 294, 298, 328
- ^ Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II pp. 308, 329, 348
- ^ Broughton, Magistrates, Vol. II pp. 381, 387, 391, 396, 400, 406, 411
- ^ Unless otherwise stated, the governors between 29 BC and AD 284 are taken from Bernard Rémy, Les carrières sénatoriales dans les provinces romaines d'Anatolie au Haut-Empire (31 av. J.-C. - 284 ap. J.-C.), (Istanbul: Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil, 1989), pp. 16-79
- ^ Now firmly identified. See Marie-Thérèse Raepsaet-Charlier, "L'inscription 'CIL' XI 1735 complétée et les 'Venulei'", Latomus, 42 (1983), pp. 152-155
- ^ a b Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 238
- ^ a b c d e f Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (180-235 n. Chr.) (Amsterdam, 1989), p. 260
- ^ F. Dönmez-Öztürk, R. Haensch, H. Sami Öztürk, H., and P. Weiss, "Aus dem Pera Museum (Istanbul): weitere Gewichte mit Nennung von Statthaltern von Pontus et Bithynia", Chiron, 38 (2008), pp. 243-65
- ^ a b c Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, p. 261
