Valerius Flaccus
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Valerius Flaccus is the name of:
- Gaius Valerius FlaccusGaius Valerius FlaccusGaius Valerius Flaccus was a Roman poet who flourished in the "Silver Age" under the emperors Vespasian and Titus and wrote a Latin Argonautica that owes a great deal to Apollonius of Rhodes' more famous epic....
(died 1st-century), Latin poet at the time of Vespasian - a number of Roman political figures, including:
- Lucius Valerius Flaccus (consul 261 BC)Lucius Valerius Flaccus (consul 261 BC)Lucius Valerius Flaccus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 261 BC with Tiberius Otacilius Crassus. He was possibly the ancestor of all later consuls by that name, since he marks the first appearance of a Lucius Valerius Flaccus on the list of consuls. He and his consular colleague waged war in...
- Lucius Valerius Flaccus (consul 195 BC)Lucius Valerius Flaccus (consul 195 BC)Lucius Valerius Flaccus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 195 BC and censor in 183 BC, serving both times with his great friend Cato the Elder, whom he brought to the notice of the Roman political elite.-Family:...
- Lucius Valerius Flaccus (princeps senatus 86 BC)Lucius Valerius Flaccus (princeps senatus 86 BC)Lucius Valerius Flaccus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 100 BC and princeps senatus during the civil wars of the 80s...
, consul 100 BC - Gaius Valerius Flaccus (consul), a cousin of the preceding man
- Lucius Valerius Flaccus (suffect consul 86 BC)Lucius Valerius Flaccus (suffect consul 86 BC)Lucius Valerius Flaccus was the suffect consul who completed the term of Gaius Marius in 86 BC. He was sent as governor in that year to the Roman province of Asia, but was murdered in a mutiny by Fimbria during the turmoil of the Sullan civil wars and the Mithridatic Wars.Flaccus is also known for...
, brother of the consul in 93 BC - Lucius Valerius Flaccus (praetor 63 BC), son of the preceding; see also CiceroCiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief...
's speech Pro Flacco - other men of the Roman Republic named Lucius Valerius Flaccus