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Family/Spouse: Marcus Antonius. Marcus (son of Aulus Antonius) was born in 193 BC in Roman Republic ( 509 BC - 27 BC ); died after 173 BC in Roman Republic ( 509 BC - 27 BC ). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• House: gens Antonia
• FSID: LJLC-CS2

Family/Spouse: Creticus, Antonia. Antonia was born in UNKNOWN in Roman Republic ( 509 BC - 27 BC ); died in DECEASED in Roman Republic ( 509 BC - 27 BC ). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Military: 90 BC; He held a command in the Social War.
• Appointments / Titles: 113 BC; Antonius started his "cursus honorum" as quaestor.
• Appointments / Titles: 97 BC; He was elected censor.
• Appointments / Titles: 99 BC; He was elected consul, together with Aulus Postumius Albinus.
• Appointments / Titles: 102 BC; He was elected praetor with proconsular powers for the Roman province of Cilicia.
• House: gens Antonia
• FSID: LHGH-ZPM

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Marcus Antonius was a Roman politician of the Antonius family and one of the most distinguished Roman orators of his time. He was also the grandfather of the famous general and triumvir, Mark Antony.

He started his cursus honorum as quaestor in 113 BC and in 102 BC he was elected praetor with proconsular powers for the province of Cilicia. During his term, he fought the pirates with such success that the Senate voted a naval triumph in his honor. He was then elected consul in 99 BC, together with Aulus Postumius Albinus, and in 97 BC, he was elected censor. He held a command in the Social War in 90 BC. During the civil war between Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Antonius supported the latter. This cost him his life; Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna executed him when they obtained possession of Rome in 87 BC.

Throughout his political career, he continued to appear as a mediative defender or an accuser in Roman courts of law. Antonius' modern reputation for eloquence derives from the authority of Cicero, since none of his speeches survive. He is one of the chief speakers in Cicero's "De Oratore."

In 100 BC, Marcus Antonius obtained a triumph, because he had fought successfully against the Cilician pirates. Some time later his daughter Antonia was kidnapped by pirates from his villa near Misenum and was only released after the payment of a large ransom.

-- Wikiwand: Marcus Antonius (orator)

Marcus married Julia in UNKNOWN in Roman Republic ( 509 BC - 27 BC ). Julia was born in UNKNOWN in Roman Republic ( 509 BC - 27 BC ); died in DECEASED in Roman Republic ( 509 BC - 27 BC ). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Appointments / Titles: 98 BC; Consul
• Appointments / Titles: 74 BC; Elected Praetor (Military)
• House: gens Antonia
• FSID: LH1F-CM9

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Marcus Antonius Creticus (flourished 1st century BC) was a Roman politician, member of the Antonius family. Creticus was son of Marcus Antonius Orator and, by his marriage to Julia Antonia, he had three sons: Triumvir Marcus Antonius, Gaius Antonius and Lucius Antonius.

He was elected praetor in 74 BC and received an extraordinary commission, similar to that bestowed upon triumvir Pompey by the Gabinian law 7 years later in 67 BC, and that conveyed on his father three decades before in 102 BC, to clear the Mediterranean Sea of the threat of piracy, and thereby assist the operations against King Mithridates VI of Pontus. Creticus not only failed in the task, but plundered the provinces he was supposed to protect from robbery. He attacked the Cretans, who had made an alliance with the pirates, but was totally defeated, most of his ships being sunk. Diodorus Siculus states that he only saved himself by a disgraceful treaty. As a result of this defeat he was mockingly given the byname Creticus, which means "conqueror of Crete", and also "man made of chalk", when translated from Latin. He died soon afterwards (72 BC -71 BC) in Crete. Most authorities are agreed as to his avarice and incompetence, but the biographer Plutarch describes him as a friendly, honest and generous man.

-- Wikiwand: Marcus Antonius Creticus

Marcus married Julia Antonia Caesaria in UNKNOWN in Roman Republic ( 509 BC - 27 BC ). Julia (daughter of Gaius Julius Caesar III and Aurelia Cotta) was born in 104 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 39 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]