List of Roman governors of Africa explained

Rome appointed governors of Africa from its conquest of Carthage in 146 BC until the province was lost to the Vandals in AD 439. The extent of 'Africa' varied time to time, but area/province encompassing and surrounding Carthage as a representative city of this region was always considered 'Africa' in a narrow sense.

146–100 BC

Unless otherwise noted, names of governors in Africa and their dates are taken from T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, (New York: American Philological Association, 1951, 1986), vol. 1, and vol. 2 (1952).

Inscriptional evidence is less common for this period than for the Imperial era, and names of those who held a provincia are usually recorded by historians only during wartime or by the Fasti Triumphales. After the defeat of Carthage in 146 BC, no further assignments to Africa among the senior magistrates or promagistrates are recorded until the Jugurthine War (112–105 BC), when the command against Jugurtha in Numidia became a consular province.

90s–31 BC

During the civil wars of the 80s and 40s BC, legitimate governors are difficult to distinguish from purely military commands, as rival factions were vying for control of the province by means of force.

Reign of Augustus

1st century AD

2nd century (101–200)

3rd century (201–300)

4th century (301–400)

5th century

Notes and References

  1. Alexander M. Charles. The Trials in The Late Roman Republic, 149 B.C. to 50 B.C. — Phoenix. — Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. — Kol. 251. — Pp. 46—47. — № 90. —
  2. T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Vol II (1952), p. 40
  3. Broughton, Magistrates, pp. 46, 57, 60
  4. Broughton, Magistrates, pp. 59, 63, 68
  5. Book: Syme, Ronald. The Augustan Aristocracy. 1989. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 978-0-19-814731-2.
  6. Syme, Ronald, The Roman Revolution (1939) p. 435
  7. Tacitus, Annals I.53
  8. Tacitus, Annals II.52
  9. Tacitus, Annals III.21
  10. Tacitus, Annals III.35, III.58
  11. Tacitus, Annals IV.23
  12. Tacitus, Annals XII.59
  13. Tacitus, Annals XI.21
  14. It is possible he was proconsul of Asia instead.
  15. Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, pp. 365–367
  16. Book: Mennen, Inge . Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284. 26 April 2011. Brill. 978-90-04-20359-4. 261.
  17. Book: Lambert . Stephen . Greek epigraphy and religion : papers in memory of Sara B. Aleshire from the Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy . 2021 . Brill . Leiden . 978-90-04-44254-2 . 97 . On the Conveyance of the Sacred Objects for the Eleusinian Mysteries: An Archaising Athenian Assembly Decree of the Third Century AD. Mackil . E. . Papazarkadas . N..
  18. Paul Leunissen notes this proconsul could be identified with either P. Julius Scapula Lepidus Tertullus Priscus, consul ordinary 195, or C. Julius Scapula Lepidus Tertullus, consul suffect between 195 and 197 (Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (1989), p. 217)
  19. [Arnold Hugh Martin Jones|Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin]

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