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(Redirected from Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus) 1st century AD Roman senator, consul and provincial governor

Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus was a Roman senator who lived in the reign of Nero. He was suffect consul in 52, but later attracted the hatred of Nero, and upon being condemned to death committed suicide. He was associated with a group of Stoics opposed to the perceived tyranny and autocratic tendencies of certain emperors, known today as the Stoic Opposition.

Life and career

Soranus was a member of the gens Marcia; his father, Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus, had been a suffect consul as well as governor of Africa. His brother was Quintus Marcius Barea Sura, friend of the future emperor Vespasian and maternal grandfather of Trajan.

His career prior to becoming consul is not well known. Subsequent to holding the fasces, Soranus was governor of Asia around 61/62. During this tenure, the Emperor Nero had ordered his freedman Acrato to take away the works of art of the city of Pergamon, but the people revolted; Soranus refused to follow the orders of the Emperor and punish its citizens.

Trial and death

Soranus was accused by Ostorius Sabinus, an equestrian, of being friends with Rubellius Plautus (another object of Nero's hatred), and for inciting the citizens of Asia to revolt. One of the chief witnesses against him was Egnatius Celer of Berytus, his client and former tutor. Soranus' daughter, Servilia, was also accused of having hired a sorcerer (magi), and was tried together with her father. Servilia confessed that she had consulted an astrologer, but only to pray in honor of her father and the emperor; Soranus asked that his daughter be spared because she was not involved in the conspiracy or aware of the misdeeds of her husband, Gaius Annius Pollio. In the end, Soranus was condemned to death (in 65 or 66), and committed suicide.

Family

Soranus is known to have one daughter, Marcia Servilia Sorana, better known as "Servilia".

Nerva–Antonine family tree

Nerva–Antonine family tree
Q. Marcius Barea SoranusQ. Marcius Barea SuraAntonia FurnillaM. Cocceius NervaSergia PlautillaP. Aelius Hadrianus
Titus
(r. 79–81)		Marcia FurnillaMarciaTrajanus PaterNerva
(r. 96–98)		UlpiaAelius Hadrianus Marullinus
FlaviaMarcianaC. Salonius MatidiusTrajan
(r. 98–117)		PlotinaP. Acilius AttianusP. Aelius AferPaulina Major
Lucius Mindius (2)Libo Rupilius Frugi (3)Salonia MatidiaL. Vibius Sabinus (1)
Paulina MinorL. Julius Ursus Servianus
Matidia MinorSabinaHadrian (r. 117–138)Antinous
C. Fuscus Salinator IJulia Serviana Paulina
M. Annius VerusRupilia FaustinaBoionia ProcillaCn. Arrius Antoninus
L. Ceionius CommodusAppia SeveraC. Fuscus Salinator II
L. Caesennius PaetusArria AntoninaArria FadillaT. Aurelius Fulvus
L. Caesennius AntoninusL. CommodusPlautiaunknownC. Avidius Nigrinus
M. Annius VerusCalvisia Domitia LucillaFundaniaM. Annius LiboFaustinaAntoninus Pius
(r. 138–161)		L. Aelius CaesarAvidia
CornificiaMarcus Aurelius
(r. 161–180)		Faustina MinorC. Avidius CassiusAurelia FadillaLucius Verus
(r. 161–169) (1)		Ceionia FabiaPlautius QuintillusQ. Servilius PudensCeionia Plautia
Cornificia MinorM. Petronius SuraCommodus
(r. 177–192)		FadillaM. Annius Verus CaesarTi. Claudius Pompeianus (2)LucillaM. Plautius QuintillusJunius Licinius BalbusServilia Ceionia
Petronius AntoninusL. Aurelius Agaclytus (2)Aurelia SabinaL. Antistius Burrus (1)Plautius QuintillusPlautia ServillaC. Furius Sabinus TimesitheusAntonia GordianaJunius Licinius Balbus?
Furia Sabina TranquillinaGordian III
(r. 238–244)
  • (1) = 1st spouse
  • (2) = 2nd spouse
  • (3) = 3rd spouse
  •   Reddish-purple indicates emperor of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty  lighter purple indicates designated imperial heir of said dynasty who never reigned  grey indicates unsuccessful imperial aspirants  bluish-purple indicates emperors of other dynasties
  • dashed lines indicate adoption; dotted lines indicate love affairs/unmarried relationships
  • Small Caps = posthumously deified (Augusti, Augustae, or other)
Notes:

Except where otherwise noted, the notes below indicate that an individual's parentage is as shown in the above family tree.

  1. Sister of Trajan's father: Giacosa (1977), p. 7.
  2. Giacosa (1977), p. 8.
  3. ^ Levick (2014), p. 161.
  4. Husband of Ulpia Marciana: Levick (2014), p. 161.
  5. ^ Giacosa (1977), p. 7.
  6. ^ DIR contributor (Herbert W. Benario, 2000), "Hadrian".
  7. ^ Giacosa (1977), p. 9.
  8. Husband of Salonia Matidia: Levick (2014), p. 161.
  9. Smith (1870), "Julius Servianus".
  10. Smith (1870), "Hadrian", pp. 319–322.
  11. Lover of Hadrian: Lambert (1984), p. 99 and passim; deification: Lamber (1984), pp. 2–5, etc.
  12. Husband of Rupilia Faustina: Levick (2014), p. 163.
  13. ^ Levick (2014), p. 163.
  14. It is uncertain whether Rupilia Faustina was Frugi's daughter by Salonia Matidia or another woman.
  15. ^ Levick (2014), p. 162.
  16. ^ Levick (2014), p. 164.
  17. Wife of M. Annius Verus: Giacosa (1977), p. 10.
  18. Wife of M. Annius Libo: Levick (2014), p. 163.
  19. ^ Giacosa (1977), p. 10.
  20. The epitomator of Cassius Dio (72.22) gives the story that Faustina the Elder promised to marry Avidius Cassius. This is also echoed in HA "Marcus Aurelius" 24.
  21. Husband of Ceionia Fabia: Levick (2014), p. 164.
  22. ^ Levick (2014), p. 117.
References:

References

  1. ^ Tacitus, Annals, xvi.23
  2. ^ Tacitus, Annals, xvi.30
  3. Tacitus, Annals, xvi.31
  4. Tacitus, Annals, xvi.32
  5.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Soranus, Barea". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 430.
  6. Julian Bennett, Trajan: Optimus Princeps (Routledge, 2003), p. 13 ISBN 978-11-3470-914-4

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Political offices
Preceded byLucius Salvius Otho Titianusas ordinary consul Suffect consul of the Roman Empire
52
with Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix 		Succeeded byLucius Salvidienus Rufus Salvianusas suffect consul
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