Cassius Apronianus or Apronianus (died 180) was a Roman

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 who lived in the 2nd century. He was a member of Cassius (gens)

Cassius (gens)

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, one of the oldest families in Ancient Rome.

Apronianus was a Roman of senatorial rank. Apronianus was originally from Bithynia

Bithynia

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 (modern North-Western Turkey

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). Through his political career, at different periods he was a Roman Proconsul

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 (or Governor) of Cilicia

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 (modern Southern-Eastern Turkey

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) and Dalmatia (modern Dalmatia

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, Croatia

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), during the Nerva-Antonine Dynasty in Rome

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.

Apronianus married the daughter of Greek

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 historian, orator, and philosopher Dio Chrysostom

Dio Chrysostom

Dio Chrysostom , Dion of Prusa or Dio Cocceianus was a Greek orator, writer, philosopher and historian of the Roman Empire in the 1st century. Eighty of his Discourses are extant, as well as a few Letters and a funny mock essay In Praise of Hair, as well as a few other fragments...

. Their son was Roman historian, consul and senator Cassius Dio. The year that he died, Apronianus was admitted into the Roman senate.

Sources

• http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Dio_Cassius
• http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0260.html