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Symmachus (other)
Symmachus is a name from Roman antiquity. It may refer to: * Symmachus (translator) (late 2nd century), author of one of the Greek versions of the Old Testament * Symmachus ben Joseph, a Jewish Tanna sage of the fifth generation * Symmachus (consul 522), son of Boethius * Pope Symmachus, bishop of Rome from 498 to 514 * Symmachi, a Roman aristocratic family ** Aurelius Valerius Tullianus Symmachus, consul in 330 ** Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus, praefectus urbi in 364–365 ** Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (c. 340–c. 402), orator, author, and politician, the most influential of the Symmachi ** Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus (383/384 – after 402), praetor ** Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, consul in 446 ** Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus (died 526) was a 6th-century Roman aristocrat, an historian and a supporter of Nicene Christianity. He was a patron of secular learning, and became the consul for the year 485. He supported Pope Symmachus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), Roman Republic (509–27 BC) and Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD) until the fall of the western empire. Ancient Rome began as an Italic settlement, traditionally dated to 753 BC, beside the River Tiber in the Italian Peninsula. The settlement grew into the city and polity of Rome, and came to control its neighbours through a combination of treaties and military strength. It eventually dominated the Italian Peninsula, assimilated the Greek culture of southern Italy ( Magna Grecia) and the Etruscan culture and acquired an Empire that took in much of Europe and the lands and peoples surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. It was among the largest empires in the ancient world, with an estimated 50 to 90 million inhabitants, roughly 20% of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symmachus (translator)
Symmachus (; grc-gre, Σύμμαχος "ally"; fl. late 2nd century) translated the Old Testament into Greek. His translation was included by Origen in his ''Hexapla'' and ''Tetrapla'', which compared various versions of the Old Testament side by side with the Septuagint. Some fragments of Symmachus's version that survive, in what remains of the ''Hexapla'', inspire scholars to remark on the purity and idiomatic elegance of Symmachus' Greek. He was admired by Jerome, who used his work in composing the ''Vulgate''. Life Eusebius inferred that Symmachus was an Ebionite (Ἐβιωνίτης Σύμμαχος ''"Symmachus the Ebionite"''), but this is now generally thought to be unreliable. The alternative is that he was a Samaritan who converted to Judaism. Epiphanius' account that Symmachus was a Samaritan who having quarrelled with his own people converted to Judaism is now given greater credence, since Symmachus' exegetical writings give no indication of Ebionism. At some time i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symmachus Ben Joseph
Symmachus ben Joseph ( he, סוֹמְכוֹס בן יוסף Romanized: Sômǝkôs ben Joseph) was a Jewish Tanna sage of the fifth generation. Biography Rabbi Meir is considered his main teacher.TalmudKiddushin 33a/ref> After R. Meir died, and despite R. Judah ben Ilai's reluctance to teach R. Meir's students (who were considered "vexatious" students), Symmachus joined R. Judah ben Ilai's class and debated halakhic matters with him. Symmachus' brilliance was described as follows: Teachings He is quoted five times in the Mishna: three times his teachings appear, and twice he quotes an opinion of Rabbi Meir. He is best known for the following disagreement about judgment in a case of monetary dispute: Later opinions differ on which situations Symmachus intended for his rule to apply. Relation to other individuals named Symmachus Some have tried to identify him with Symmachus the translator, but this view has been generally rejected. In Epiphanius' treatise ''On Weights and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symmachus (consul 522)
Flavius Symmachus (''fl.'' 522–526) was a Roman politician during the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy. Son of the philosopher Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius and of Rusticiana (his aunts were Galla and Proba), he was the brother of Boethius (consul 522), Boethius, with whom he shared the consulate, chosen by the Ostrogothic court. His father fell into disgrace with the Ostrogothic ruler and had his own property confiscated; at the death of king Theodoric the Great (526), these properties were given back to Boethius and Symmachus.Procopius of Caesarea, ''Bellum Gothicum'', I.2.5. Notes Bibliography * * Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris (historian), John Morris, ''The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'', "Fl. Symmachus 8", volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1992, , p. 1044. {{end 6th-century Italo-Roman people 6th-century Roman consuls People of the Ostrogothic Kingdom Flavii Imperial Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pope Symmachus
Pope Symmachus (died 19 July 514) was the bishop of Rome from 22 November 498 to his death. His tenure was marked by a serious schism over who was elected pope by a majority of the Roman clergy. Early life He was born on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia (then under Vandal rule), the son of Fortunatus; Jeffrey Richards notes that he was born a pagan, and "perhaps the rankest outsider" of all the Ostrogothic Popes, most of whom were members of aristocratic families. He was probably a member of the Aurelii Symmachi family. Symmachus was baptised in Rome, where he became Archdeacon of the Roman Church under Pope Anastasius II (496–498). Papacy Symmachus was elected pope on 22 November 498 in the Constantinian basilica (Saint John Lateran). The archpriest of Santa Prassede, Laurentius, was elected pope on the same day at the Basilica of Saint Mary (presumably Saint Mary Major) by a dissenting faction with Byzantine sympathies, who were supported by Eastern Roman Emperor An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symmachi
The Aurelii Symmachi were an aristocratic senatorial family ''( gens)'' of the late Roman Empire. The family received its first offices at the beginning of the 3rd century under emperor Septimius Severus. It further increased its prestige, reaching its peaks in the 4th and 5th centuries. Among the most important members of this family were: * Aurelius Valerius Tullianus Symmachus, consul in 330 ** Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus, ''praefectus urbi'' in 364-365, son of Aurelius Valerius Tullianus Symmachus * Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, c.340–c.402, orator, consul in 391. He was considered the best Latin orator of his age, similar to Cicero) by his contemporaries. He was the most influential of the Symmachi ** Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus, son of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus ** Aurelius Anicius Symmachus, nephew of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus *** Quintus Aurelius Symmachus the Younger, consul in 446, son of Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus **** Quintus Aurelius Memmius Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurelius Valerius Tullianus Symmachus
Aurelius Valerius Symmachus Tullianus ( 330–337) was a Roman senator and aristocrat. He was appointed consul in 330 by the emperor Constantine. Writing between 334 and 337 (probably 337), the author Firmicus Maternus noted Tullianus for his austerity, severity, integrity, and Stoicism, though Cameron says this description represents an idealized image of a Roman senator and need not be an accurate depiction of the subject himself. Symmachus probably earned the name Tullianus, referencing Marcus Tullius Cicero, because he was famed a orator, as were several senatorial descendants of his, including Avianius Symmachus, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (consul in 391), and Memmius Symmachus (consul 485). Tullianus may be identical with one Phosphorius who served as proconsul of Achaia in 319. 'Phosphorius' occurs as an informal name () elsewhere in his family and is otherwise rare, but confirmation of the identity is lacking.T.D. Barnes, "P.Oxy. 889 Again", ''ZPE'' 53 (1983), p. 276 no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus
Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus Phosphorius (died 376) was an aristocrat of the Roman Empire, and father of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus. Biography A member of the aristocratic family of the Symmachi, he was the son of Aurelius Valerius Tullianus Symmachus, consul for 330. He had one daughter and four sons, among whom were Celsinus Titianus and the most influential of the Symmachi, the orator Quintus Aurelius Symmachus. Avianius was a pagan senator,Mazzarino, p. 412. and was member of several priestly ''collegia'', including the ''Pontefices Vestae'' and the '' quindecimviri sacris faciundi'' (from 351 to 375). By January 350 he held the office of praefectus annonae; later that decade he was ''vicarius urbis Romae''. In 361, he went to Antioch (in Syria), where he probably met Libanius, to meet Emperor Constantius II: it is probable that the Roman Senate wanted to assure its loyalty to the ruling emperor after receiving a letter from Julian, cousin and caesar of Constantius, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus signo Eusebius (, ; c. 345 – 402) was a Roman statesman, orator, and man of letters. He held the offices of governor of proconsular Africa in 373, urban prefect of Rome in 384 and 385, and consul in 391. Symmachus sought to preserve the traditional religions of Rome at a time when the aristocracy was converting to Christianity, and led an unsuccessful delegation of protest against Emperor Gratian's order to remove the Altar of Victory from the curia, the principal meeting place of the Roman Senate in the Forum Romanum. Two years later he made a famous appeal to Gratian's successor, Valentinian II, in a dispatch that was rebutted by Ambrose, the bishop of Milan. Symmachus's career was temporarily derailed when he supported the short-lived usurper Magnus Maximus, but he was rehabilitated and three years later appointed consul. After the death of Theodosius I, he became an ally of Stilicho, the guardian of emperor Honorius. In collaboration with Sti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus
Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus (383/384 – after 402) was a politician of the Roman empire, member of the influential family of the Symmachi. Biography He was son of the orator and politician Quintus Aurelius Symmachus and of Rusticiana; he was born in 383/384. Memmius had an elder sister, Galla, who married Nicomachus Flavianus, son of Virius Nicomachus Flavianus. At the age of ten, he became quaestor, celebrating the public games connected with his office in December 393. Memmius was well educated, and studied Greek language; his father approved his style in writing letters and, in 401, he studied with a Gallic rhetor as his tutor. The year 401 marked several important events in Memmius' life: he married the granddaughter of Virius Nicomachus Flavianus;It was probably in this occasion that the bond between the two aristocratic, pagan families was celebrated with the issue of a diptych, whose valves are entitled one ''Nicomachorum'' and the other ''Symmachorum'' (Serena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (consul 446)
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (''floruit'' 446) was an aristocrat of the Western Roman Empire. He was appointed consul by the western court, together with general Flavius Aetius, in 446. Biography Aurelius Symmachus was a member of the Symmachi family. He was probably the son of Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus (and therefore grandson of the orator Quintus Aurelius Symmachus), and he was likely the father of Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus. He may also be the Symmachus to whom Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius dedicated the work . Bibliography * Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, "Q. Aurelius Symmachus 9", ''The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'', Cambridge University Press, 1971, , pp. 1046. {{DEFAULTSORT:Aurelius Symmachus, Quintus 5th-century Romans 5th-century Roman consuls Imperial Roman consuls Quintus Quintus is a male given name derived from '' Quintus'', a common Latin forename (''praenomen'') found in the culture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
