Tripti Joshi (Editor)

Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul 23)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Gaius Pollio

Role
  
Politician


Parents
  
Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus

Similar People
  
Vipsania Agrippina, Drusus Julius Caesar, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

Grandparents
  
Gaius Asinius Pollio

Gaius asinius pollio consul 23


Gaius Asinius Pollio, son of Gaius Asinius Gallus and Vipsania Agrippina, was a Roman politician.

He was consul in AD 23 alongside Gaius Antistius Vetus. We know from his coins he was proconsul of Asia. Through his mother Pollio was the half-brother of the younger Drusus. In 45, Pollio was exiled as an accuser of a conspiracy and later was put to death on orders from Empress Valeria Messalina.

The Asinia Pollionis filia mentioned on an inscription from Tusculum may have been his daughter. Pollio was perhaps the father (or brother) of Gaius Asinius Placentinus (b. 25), who lived around the middle of the 1st century, and Marcus Asinius Pollio. He was the older brother of Marcus Asinius Agrippa and Asinia, the mother of Pomponia Graecina.

References

Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul 23) Wikipedia