# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gaius-asinius-pollio-q319273
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:29:36.621Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gaius-asinius-pollio-q319273"
name: "Gaius Asinius Pollio"
slug: "gaius-asinius-pollio-q319273"
description: "Gaius Asinius Pollio was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic, and historian, whose lost contemporaneous history provided much of the material used by the historians Appian and Plutarch. Pollio was most famously a patron of Virgil and a friend of Horace; poems to him were dedicated by both men."
tagline: "Roman politician, historian and writer (75 BC–AD 4)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gaius_Asinius_Pollio_1952%2C0117.14.223.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "-75"
deathDate: "4"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.74683866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Gajusz Azyniusz Pollion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump