Africanus Fabius Maximus

Africanus Fabius Maximus was the younger son of Quintus Fabius Maximus (consul 45 BCE). Although commonly referred to as Africanus Fabius Maximus, it remains unclear whether that was his official name or whether it was Quintus Fabius Maximus Africanus. His elder brother was Paullus Fabius Maximus (consul 11 BCE) and his sister was Fabia Paullina, who married Marcus Titius.

It is believed that Africanus was named in honour of his famous family ancestor Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Aemilianus.[1]

Career

The career of Africanus Fabius Maximus is much less clear than that of his brother. It is believed that Africanus' earliest post was as a military tribune in Spain, though this is not certain. His only two certain civilian posts were as ordinary consul in 10 BCE (with Iullus Antonius), and as proconsul of Africa in 6/5 BCE.[2] He was admitted to the priesthood of the septemviri epulonum at some point after 25 BCE.[3]

It was during his tenure as proconsul of Africa that Africanus struck some coins that bore his own image.[4]

Possible family

Although no wife is attested for Africanus, it is possible that he had a daughter named Fabia Numantina.[5] Alternatively, she may have been the daughter of Africanus' brother, Paullus Fabius Maximus and his wife, Marcia.[6]

See also

Footnotes
  1. Syme, Augustan Aristocracy (1989), pp. 75, 419
  2. Syme, Augustan Aristocracy (1989), p. 320
  3. Martha W. Hoffman Lewis, The Official Priests of Rome under the Julio-Claudians (Rome: American Academy, 1955), p. 87
  5. Syme, Augustan Aristocracy (1989), pp. 417f
  6. Syme, Augustan Aristocracy (1989), p. 59

References
  • Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford University Press, 1989). ISBN 0-19-814731-7, ISBN 978-0-19-814731-2
Political offices
Preceded by
Quintus Aelius Tubero,
and Paullus Fabius Maximus		 Consul of the Roman Empire
10 BC
with Iullus Antonius		 Succeeded by
Nero Claudius Drusus, and
Titus Quinctius Crispinus Sulpicianus
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