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Publius Sempronius Asellio (died after 91 B.C.
1) was an early Roman historian and one of the first writers of historiographic work in Latin. He was a military tribune of P.
Scipio Aemilianus Africanus at the siege of
Numantia in
Hispania in 134 B.C. Later he joined the circle of writers centred around Scipio Aemilianus. Asiello wrote the history of the events of which he was engaged in (Gell. ii. IB.), and thus preceded
Caesar in his more famous accounts of his military campaigns.
Life
Asellio, whose background is unknown, probably belonged to the prestigious plebeian gens
Sempronia. He was greatly influenced by his co-writer supported by Scipio Aemilianus
Polybius, who attempted not only to record events as they took place, but also to look for the causes that led to them. Asellio was the first Roman historian to follow this method
2. In his work, he showed contempt for the previous Roman historians of annalistic school. According to him, they wrote nothing else than a diary as far as form was concerned.
3.
Work
Sempronius Asellio composed
Rerum Gestarum Libri (sometimes cited as
Idstoriae or
libri rerum gestarum) in at least fourteen books, where he dealt mostly with the events of the
Punic Wars and onwards
4. It is said he started recording history after Polybius stopped at 146 B.C.
Cicero didn't think highly of Asellio's work and spoke slightingly of it. Nothing apart from a couple of citations preserved in other authors survives of his work.
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