Prosopographia Imperii Romani

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Authors

  • Werner Eck
  • Matthäus Heil
  • Johannes Thomassen

Description

The Prosopographia Imperii Romani (second edition) is a print prosopography of Roman élite individuals from the first three centuries, published between 1933 and 2015 (the final volume, gentilicia beginning with the letters U-Z appeared in late 2015).

The project also offers an online search mask offering basic information about names and bibliographical citations of individuals, but all biographical and structural information is redacted out of respect for the publishers of the print volumes. The search interface only contains names beginning A-R from the second edition; references to persons beginning S-Z are from the first edition (PIR¹).

The persons in PIR² vols A-R and PIR¹ S-Z have been assigned unique identifiers by the Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies project (persons 110924).

From the website (in German):

Die Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR) ist ein Personenlexikon.
Es soll im wesentlichen die Führungsschicht des Römischen Reiches in der Frühen und Hohen Kaiserzeit erfassen. Die untere zeitliche Grenze ist die Schlacht von Aktium 31 v. Chr., seit der die monarchische Herrschaftsstruktur für Rom endgültig geworden war; die obere Grenze bildet die Herrschaft Diokletians (284-305), mit der eine wesentliche Änderung im staatlichen und gesellschaftlichen Aufbau des Reiches durchgesetzt wurde.

Bibliography

  • Prosopographia Imperii Romani Saec I. II. III (second edition). Berlin, 1933-2015. (Full author listing at PIR site)
  • Werner Eck: "The Prosopographia Imperii Romani and Prosopographical Method." In Averil Cameron (Ed.), Fifty Years of Prosopography. The Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Beyond. University Press, Oxford 2003(Proceedings of The British Academy, 118), pp. 11–22.