Publius Nonius Asprenas Caesius Cassianus was a Roman senator who was active in the first century. He was appointed suffect consul by Vespasian in either 72 or 73. [1] Cassianus is known only through inscriptions. He is the son of Publius Nonius Asprenas Calpurnius Serranus, ordinary consul of 38. [2]
The Roman Empire was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization. Ruled by emperors, it had large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Caucasus. From the constitutional reforms of Augustus to the military anarchy of the third century, the Empire was a principate ruled from the city of Rome. The Roman Empire was then ruled by multiple emperors and divided in a Western Roman Empire, based in Milan and later Ravenna, and an Eastern Roman Empire, based in Nicomedia and later Constantinople. Rome remained the nominal capital of both parts until 476 AD, when Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustus after capturing Ravenna and the Senate of Rome sent the imperial regalia to Constantinople. The fall of the Western Roman Empire to barbarian kings, along with the hellenization of the Eastern Roman Empire into the Byzantine Empire, is conventionally used to mark the end of Ancient Rome and the beginning of the Middle Ages.
A consul held the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic, and ancient Romans considered the consulship the highest level of the cursus honorum.
Vespasian was Roman emperor from 69–79, the fourth, and last, in the Year of the Four Emperors. He founded the Flavian dynasty that ruled the Empire for 27 years.
An inscription from Cilicia records his marking of boundaries of that province, designated as legatus pro praetore provinciae Ciliciae ; [3] Werner Eck dates his tenure as legate, or governor, of this imperial province as extending from 72/73 to 74. [4] Since this date makes him the predecessor of Lucius Octavius Memor, who is attested as governor in the year 77, Ronald Syme observed Cassianus is "the first governor of the new province established by Vespasian in 72." [5] Cassianus is also attested as proconsular governor of Asia, one of the most prestigious of governorships a Roman senator could hold, in 86/87. [6]
In antiquity, Cilicia was the south coastal region of Asia Minor and existed as a political entity from Hittite times into the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia during the late Byzantine Empire. Extending inland from the southeastern coast of modern Turkey, Cilicia is due north and northeast of the island of Cyprus and corresponds to the modern region of Çukurova in Turkey.
Werner Eck is Professor of Ancient History at Cologne University and a noted expert on the history of imperial Rome.
Sir Ronald Syme, was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. Long associated with Oxford University, he is widely regarded as the 20th century's greatest historian of ancient Rome. His great work was The Roman Revolution (1939), a masterly and controversial analysis of Roman political life in the period following the assassination of Julius Caesar.
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