List of Roman governors of Sicilia

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This is a list of known Roman governors of Sicilia, the Roman province of Sicily.

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Republican governors of Sicily

(The following list is based on Jonathan R. W. Prag, "Roman Magistrates in Sicily, 227-49 BC.", in La Sicile de Cicéron: lecture des Verrines. Actes du colloque de Paris (19-20 mai 2006) (Besançon: Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l'Antiquité, 2007), pp. 287–310.)

(Note: Prag omits the names of any magistrate in Sicily between the creation of the province in 241 BC and 227 BC because "no evidence exists." [1] )

Imperial governors of Sicily

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References

  1. Prag, "Roman Magistrates", p. 288
  2. Plinius Maior . Naturalis Historia, VII, 12 (55)
  3. Münzer F . Sura 5 // Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). — 1931. — Bd. IV A, 1. — Kol. 962—963
  4. Unless otherwise noted, governors from c. 31 BC to c. AD 286 are taken from Werner Eck, "Über die prätorischen Prokonsulate in der Kaiserzeit. Eine quellenkritische Überlegung", Zephyrus 23/24 (1972/73), pp. 233-260
  5. 1 2 Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron , 13 (1983), p. 203
  6. Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), p. 351 n. 40
  7. Eck, Chiron, 12 (1982), pp. 328f
  8. Eck, Chiron, 12 (1982), pp. 355f
  9. Eck, Chiron, 13 (1983), pp. 169, 171
  10. Eck, Chiron, 13 (1983), pp. 174f
  11. Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 266
  12. 1 2 3 4 Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (1989), p. 305
  13. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, p. 306
  14. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, pp. 305f