Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus

Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus

Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (d. c. 31 B.C.E.) Roman general and help of the various Roman factions in Egypt. Ahenobarbus aided Marc Antony in his effort to become master of the Roman world. The son of a prominent family that wielded much mold in the Roman Senate, he bore the name Ahenobarbus, or red beard, because of the conventional tale that a distant ancestor had his beard turned that color by the gods Castor and Pollux. He was as well noted as the grandfather of the coming emperor Nero.

Earlier Ahenobarbus backed Brutus and the Liberators  who  had  gone Julius Caesar, calling  for the  continuation  of  the  Roman  Republic.  been  the defeat  of  the  Republicans  after  Caesars  assassination  in 44 B.C.E., Ahenobarbus fled Rome and was forced to survive by working as a pirate in the Mediterranean. In 40 B.C.E., he  was  submitted  with  Marc Antony  (who  had graphic  himself  against  the  Liberators),  serving  him  as the regulator of Anatolia (modern Turkey) until 35 B.C.E. He was a consul of Rome when Marc Antony and Octavian, the  coming Augustus  and  first  emperor  of  Rome, proved  unable  to  stay  semipolitical  allies.  Ahenobarbus went with Antony to Alexandria, Egypt, but presently got Cleopatra VII (51-30 B.C.E.), Antonys noted lover, to be an evil influence. He little that she was opposed to conventional  Roman  values  and,  when  Antony  corrected  to heed  his  counsel,  Ahenobarbus  deserted  Antonys  get just before the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C.E. He died presently after, purportedly of remorse, but probably from a terminal illness. His foul temper was legendary.

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