Gaius Pomponius Graecinus

Gaius Pomponius Graecinus († 38) was a Roman politician of the early imperial period and n in the year 16 AD Suffektkonsul.

Graecinus came from a plebeian family of the Pomponier. Through its direct ancestor is not known. He was an educated man and friend and patron of Ovid. An elegy of the Amores is addressed to Graecinus who had once told him that you can not love two women at the same time. Even from his exile Ovid turned with three letters to him. That he asks Graecinus and his brother Flaccus is to intercede with Augustus, suggesting that he had some influence. Since the year 21 Pomponius Graecinus belonged to the fratres Arvales. He died after disclosure of the records of this college in the year 38

Graecinus had at least two brothers, which can Ovid greet along with a mother and wife, including Lucius Pomponius Flaccus, who had held the consulship in the year after Graecinus.

Pomponia Graecina, the wife of Aulus Plautius, who was indicted in 58 because of the pursuit of a foreign superstition was most likely the daughter of Pomponius Graecinus. He also had a son who bore the same name as the father.