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Antonius Flamma

Antonius Flamma

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Antonius Flamma was a politician of ancient Rome who served as governor of the Roman province of Cyrenaica under the emperor Nero. He was banished at the beginning of Vespasian's reign for his extortion and cruelty.[1] He was not a foreign politician, but was in fact a member of the native ruling class of Cyrenaica.[2] His son was a priest of the local cult center of Apollo.[3]

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  1. [1]
    Tacitus, Historia iv. 45.
  2. [2]
    Levick, Barbara (2002). The Government of the Roman Empire. Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World. Routledge. p. 200. ISBN 9781134572649. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  3. [3]
    Várhelyi, Zsuzsanna (2010). The Religion of Senators in the Roman Empire: Power and the Beyond. Cambridge University Press. p. 32. ISBN 9781139487610. Retrieved 2016-02-13.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Donne, William Bodham (1870). "Flamma, Antonius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. p. 168.

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