The Prosopographia Imperii Romani, abbreviated PIR, is a collective historical work to establish the prosopography of high-profile people from the Roman empire. The time period covered extends from the Battle of Actium in 31 BC to the reign of Diocletian. The final volume of the second edition, PIR2, vol. IX, V–Z, appeared in November 2015.
The implementation of a second edition was last updated in 1933 for publication in Berlin. The first booklet of the second edition was led by Edmund Groag and Arthur Stein[1] who brought together the letters A and B. The publication was interrupted by World War II while working on the letter F (1943). From 1952 they took the direction of Stein and then Leiva Petersen. After German unification the project found a new dynamic. It was from then on led by K. Wachtel. The fascicle concerning the letter S was then published in 2006, and T in 2009. The index of names and people integral to the PIR was in the meantime made searchable on the website of the PIR.[2]
Volume 2 of the PIR includes notes for all the well-known Roman senators, the nobles, and some civil servants not of equestrian rank, such as manumitted imperial freedmen who are attested in the literary tradition. Entries in the PIR are indexed by the initial letter of the name, then by the number of the entry, i.e. Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus corresponds to the entry PIR2 C 973: the 973rd entry under the letter C.
Werner Eck: The Prosopographia Imperii Romani and Prosopographical Method. In: Averil Cameron (Hrsg.): Fifty Years of Prosopography. The Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Beyond. University Press, Oxford 2003, S. 11–22, ISBN0-19-726292-9 (Proceedings of the British Academy, 118).
Further readingEdit
Joerg Fuendling, "Review of Prosopographia Imperii Romani Saec. I. II. III. Pars viii, Fasciculus 1", Bryn Mawr Classical Review
External linksEdit
Website for PIR2
September 21, 2023
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