Epitome Rerum Romanorum
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Florus, Lucius Annaeus
Florus, Lucius Annaeus
c. 74 CE–c. 130 CE · Rome
Florus was a Roman historian active in the early 2nd century CE, under the emperors Trajan and Hadrian. He wrote a brief, rhetorical 'Epitome of Roman History,' largely based on Livy, organizing Rome's wars into a dramatic narrative of the people's growth and maturity. He is often identified with the poet and friend of Hadrian of the same name, though this remains uncertain.
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About Rome
Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.
In Rome at the same time
Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Pliny, the Elder, Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, Musonius Rufus, Quintilian, Titus
Across the traditions, in Rome at the same time
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Florus, Lucius Annaeus’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
- John the Apostle· Rome
- Aquila· Rome
- Priscilla· Rome
- Berenice· Rome
- Josephus· Rome
- Rabbi Yehoshua· Rome
- Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh· Rome
- Eleazar ben Azaryah· Rome
- Telesphorus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Sixtus I, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Alexander I, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Evaristus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Anacletus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Linus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Ignatius of Antioch· Rome
- Clement of Rome· Rome
In the same tradition
Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Pliny, the Elder, Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, Musonius Rufus, Quintilian, Titus, Martial, Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius), Plutarch, Domitian, Epictetus, Juvenal, Tacitus, Cornelius, Pliny, the Younger, Suetonius, Favorinus of Arelate, Appian of Alexandria
The world in their lifetime
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Florus, Lucius Annaeus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.