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Gnaeus Gellius

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2nd century BC Roman historian

WritersLived 175 BC to 160 BC · aged 15
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Gnaeus Gellius was a Roman historian. Very little is known about his life and work, which has only survived in scattered fragments. He continued the historical tradition set by Fabius Pictor of writing a year-by-year history of Rome from mythological times to his day.

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Denarius of Gnaeus Gellius, minted in 138 BC. Roma is pictured on the obverse within a laurel-wreath, while Mars drives a quadriga on the reverse. The moneyer's name CN. GEL is written below the chariot.[1]Denarius of Gnaeus Gellius, minted in 138 BC. Roma is pictured on the obverse within a laurel-wreath, while Mars drives a quadriga on the reverse. The moneyer's name CN. GEL is written below the chariot.[1]Bronze quadrans of Gnaeus Gellius, 138 BC. The name is here spelled CN. GELI.[1]Bronze quadrans of Gnaeus Gellius, 138 BC. The name is here spelled CN. GELI.[1]

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Gnaeus Gellius was a Roman historian. Very little is known about his life and work, which has only survived in scattered fragments. He continued the historical tradition set by Fabius Pictor of writing a year-by-year history of Rome from mythological times to his day. However, with about a hundred books, Gellius' Annales were massively more developed than the other Roman annalists, and was only surpassed by Livy's gigantic History of Rome.

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Lived 175 BC to 160 BC · aged 15
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