Talk:Lucius Cornelius Balbus (proconsul)

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Cleanup of both articles is probably called for and there is probably a need to rename the uncle's article based on this one. Vegaswikian (talk) 02:26, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

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Lucius Cornelius Balbus (minor) → Lucius Cornelius Balbus Minor — Relisting. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:57, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Present title implies that he was a "minor" rather than that "Minor" was part of what he was called.--Kotniski (talk) 16:31, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment I would call him "Lucius Cornelius Balbus the Younger" and his uncle "the Elder". This is the English Wikipedia, it is most easily comprehensible, seee treatment of Tiberius Gracchus. PatGallacher (talk) 11:06, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

I agree with Pat. See Cato the Younger, Gaius Marius the Younger, Pliny the Younger, Seneca the Younger, Agrippina the Younger, Julia the Younger, Melania the Younger and Octavia the Younger. AJRG (talk) 11:20, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

I don't know enough of the matter to object myself, though it was specifically written (at WP:Naming conventions (people), where I found this used as an example - removed for the moment) that these two people are not usually known as "the Younger" and "the Elder". See this version.--Kotniski (talk) 11:27, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

See Lucius Cornelius Balbus Major ("the Elder"). AJRG (talk) 11:45, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Well that would seem to confirm my original preference for "Minor" over "(minor)", though it also seems to support "Minor" more than "the Younger" (since Britannica gives Minor as part of the name, and "the Younger" in brackets after it as what seems to be just an explanation of what "Minor" means).--Kotniski (talk) 12:37, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Better to use the non-specialist the Younger in the title and the name used by specialists in the body of the text. Most people would otherwise think that Minor is part of the name, when it's actually a disambiguation. AJRG (talk) 12:57, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Looking at the bizarrely uninformative first sentence ('received citizenship the same time as his uncle' is surely not the best and most succinct way to identify this interesting figure), I'd say the article has bigger problems than the awkward issue of naming. Cynwolfe (talk) 21:08, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Reads like Lucius Cornelius Balbus (about both men) has been split, clumsily. Should we sew it back together, with section redirects for links which are specifically to one of them? Septentrionalis PMAnderson 23:03, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

This must be the original:. See also this article. AJRG (talk) 07:24, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

The second one is a tad confused. If he was praetor in 43, he was not born in 50; and it discusses Augustus before Caesar. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 22:40, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

I'm neutral about the idea of stitching the two back together, though I would say that they are often confused, and sorting them out on the same page wouldn't be a bad idea. But this could also be accomplished separately.

There is a spectacularly detailed French article on the elder Balbus: Françoise des Boscs-Plateaux, “L. Cornelius Balbus de Gadès: La carrière méconnue d’un Espagnol à l’époque des guerres civiles (1er siècle av. J.–C.)," Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez 30 (1994) 7–35, which I looked at a couple of years ago and now find available here. The article linked to by AJRG gives a fair enough overview but should not be used as a source to cite. It undermines its credibility by saying things like "he was a famous Balbi" instead of "he was a famous Balbus," and is a little imprecise about chronology: Balbus was Pompey's man first, and it would've been after Pompey left Spain following the Sertorian Wars in 72 that Balbus headed toward Rome with him. Not with Caesar, who according to Broughton was most likely still trucking around Greece and Asia Minor after the incident with the pirates.

Curiously, PMA, Broughton doesn't show either of these guys as praetor in 43. The minor Balbus was a quaestor in 44, presumably a proquaestor in 43, and a promagistrate in Spain again in 40, when the elder Balbus was suffect consul without having held previous office. Still, even if it was by appointment, it's pretty staggering to think that it was politically feasible for a naturalized citizen to hold the consulship in the 1st century BC. Says something about ancient Rome that is often overlooked. In the U.S., a nation of immigrants, a naturalized citizen still can't be president. I think this is one of the points regarding Balbus's citizenship: that a Roman is a Roman by law, not by blood. Cynwolfe (talk) 17:20, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Something about Augustus's Rome, please note. Maecenas wouldn't have been influential under the Republic either. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 19:13, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

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Merged content

User:Diyorbek Ikhtiyorov left the following message on the article page:

"Merged content from Draft:Lucius Cornelius Balbus (proconsul) to here. See Talk:merge discussion section"

Moved it to here - Arjayay (talk) 16:31, 14 August 2023 (UTC)