Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso

Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso († 20 in Rome) was a Roman politician at the time of the Emperor Augustus and Tiberius.

Piso was consul in the year 7 BC between 6 BC and 9 AD, he held the proconsul of Africa, and in 9/10, he was legate of Hispania Citerior. Although he had very been lining their own pockets Spain, Piso 17 was governor of Syria in the year. There he and his wife had Munatia Plancina witness violent clashes with Germanicus, as Tacitus and Suetonius. Because of the difficulties with Germanicus Piso was accused in 20; before a conviction, he retired voluntarily from the life. His name was expunged from the lists of Arvalbrüder.

Main source for the death of Germanicus and the trial of Piso was a long time the display in the 2nd and 3rd book of the Annals of the Roman historian Tacitus. A few years ago a bronze inscription with the Senate resolution was found in Spain, which ended the process after Piso's death, the Senatus consultum de Gnaeo Pisone patre that allows new insights into the operation of the process.

The obituary Zab was negative, not only because of collision with Germanicus in Syria, which led to high treason. Seneca tells of atrocities which had made ​​Piso as governor guilty. According to Strabo, he had made ​​fun of the province of Africa, it was littered with oases like a leopard with spots.

His sons were Lucius Calpurnius Piso and Marcus.