Ancient Roman politicians

Roman politician, soldier and writer (234–149 BC)

Lucius Sergius Catilina ( – January 62 BC), known in English as Catiline (), was a Roman politician and soldier best known for instigating the Catilinarian conspiracy, a failed attempt to seize control of the Roman state in 63 BC. Born to an ancient patrician family, he joined Sulla during Sulla's civil war and profited from Sulla's purges of his political enemies, becoming a wealthy man. In the early 60s BC, he served as praetor and then as governor of Africa (67–66 BC). Upon his return to Rome, he attempted to stand for the consulship but was rebuffed; he then was beset w

4th century Roman historian and politician

Roman politician and general (420-476)

Roman senator and father of Julius Caesar (c.140 BC - 85 BC)

1st-century BC Roman magistrate, notorious for his misgovernment of Sicily

father of Roman emperor Tiberius

senate opinion leader in ancient Rome

Roman consul 177 BC

Roman senator and conspirator against Nero (died 65 AD)

father of emperor Trajan

Roman senator and assassin of Julius Caesar

Roman consul 138 BC

ancient Roman orator and curule aedile in 50 BC

Roman philosopher and politician (35-93)

Roman governor of Britain from 47 to 52 AD

Roman politician and praetor (died 100 BC)

Roman Republican consul

1st century Roman senator, consul (28 CE) and provincial governor

Roman governor of Africa

Roman general

Roman consul 269 BC

4th century BC Roman politician, general and consul

Mamurra () was a Roman military officer who served under Julius Caesar.

Roman senator

intimate friend of Julius Caesar

Roman suffect consul 74 AD

Roman consul in 310 BC

triumvir monetalis in 79 BC and grandfather of emperor Tiberius

commander under Germanicus and uncle of emperor Vitellius

Roman senator and twice consul during the reign of Vespasian

1st century Roman senator and consul

ancient Rome politician

Roman consul 73 AD

1st century BC Roman politician and writer

Roman writer and critic of Julius Caesar

Roman aedile between 53 and 52 BC

Roman consul 332 AD

Roman politician and general

Olympius (died 410/411) was a minister of the Western Roman Empire, in the court of the emperor Honorius (reigned 393–423). Olympius orchestrated the fall and execution of the capable general Stilicho, who had effectively been ruling the Western Roman Empire as regent of Honorius for over twelve years.

Roman consul 130 AD

father of empress Vibia Sabina

Adiatorix () was the son of Domneclius (or Domnilaus), tetrarch of the Trocmi in Galatia. Cicero reports that he was a high priest in 50 BC, and scholars have reckoned him an adherent of Deiotarus. He belonged to Mark Antony's party, and was put in charge of Heraclea Pontica by him. Shortly before the Battle of Actium in 31, Adiatorix had all the Roman colonists in Heracleia put to death. He claimed he had been given permission to do so by Mark Antony, but modern writers consider this doubtful. After this battle he was led as prisoner in the triumph of Augustus, and put to death with his young

1st century Roman eques and governor of Egypt

Roman consul 130 AD

tribune of the plebs in 311 BCE

tribune of the plebs in 199 BC

associate of Cicero

Roman praetor in 139 BC

Ancient Roman politician and diplomat

ancient Roman writer