Gaius Pomponius Graecinus

"Pomponius Graecinus" redirects here. For the 3rd-century Christian known from a tomb inscription beneath Rome, see Crypt of Lucina.

Gaius (or Publius) Pomponius Graecinus was a Roman politician who was suffect consul in AD 16 as the colleague of Gaius Vibius Rufus.[1] He was probably a novus homo raised to the Senate by Augustus. He was a friend and patron of the poet Ovid, who addressed three letters of his Epistulae ex Ponto ("Letters from the Black Sea") to him around AD 10.[2]

He married Asinia, daughter of Vipsania Agrippina and Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus. Pomponia Graecina, wife of Aulus Plautius, was probably his daughter or granddaughter by Asinia. He, or his brother, Lucius Pomponius Flaccus, who was consul in 17 and later imperial Syrian governor in 35, may have married Vistilia (mother of empress Milonia Caesonia) and had two sons: Publius Pomponius Secundus and Quintus Pomponius Secundus.

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  1. ^ Attilio Degrassi, I fasti consolari dell'Impero Romano dal 30 avanti Cristo al 613 dopo Cristo (Rome, 1952), p. 8
  2. ^ Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto i.6, ii.6, iv.9

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Preceded byas ordinary consuls Suffect consul of the Roman Empire
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with Gaius Vibius Rufus 		Succeeded byas ordinary consuls