Licinius Macer

Gaius Licinius Macer († 66 BC) was a politician in the late Roman Republic, and is calculated as a historian for the " younger Annals ".

Life

Macer was in the year 73 BC, tribune of the people, and by 68 BC, praetor. Politically, he was an opponent of Optimates. In Sallust he is mentioned as a fighter for the rights of the people. Two years later succeeded Marcus Tullius Cicero, to convict him of bribery and extortion, after he committed suicide.

As a historian, he wrote a history of Rome in 16 books, which he gave in the form of annals, and are obtained from the fragments. From Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, both used the work, we know that it began with the founding of Rome and Pyrrhus appeared in the 2nd book. Livy casts doubt on Macers credibility and assumes that it represented events wrong to increase the honor of his assets Licinia (7, 9, 5), but also notes that Macer original sources such as the line rolls ( libri lintei ) used (4, 7, 12, 4, 20, 8, 4, 23, 2).

Macer was the father of the poet Gaius Licinius Macer Calvus.

Expenditure

• Hans Beck, Uwe Walter ( ed., Translator, Comm ): The early Roman historians. Volume 2 From Coelius Antipater to Pomponius Atticus. University Press, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-534-14758-8, pp. 314-345.
• Martine Chassignet: L' Annalistique Romaine. Volume 3 L' Annalistique RECENTE. L' autobiography Politique ( fragment ). Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-251-01435-7.
• Siri Walt: The historian C. Licinius Macer. Introduction, fragments comment. Teubner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-519-07652-7.
• Enrica Malcovati (ed.): Oratorum Romanorum fragmenta liberae rei publicae. Volume 1, 1976.
• Hermann Peter (ed.): Historicorum Romanorum reliquiae. Volume 1, 1914 (reprint 1967).