Marcus Fulvius Nobilior

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Marcus Fulvius Nobilior, Roman general, a member of one of the most important families of the patrician Fulvius gens.

When praetor (193 BC) he served with distinction in Spain, and as consul in 159 he completely broke the power of the Aetolian League. On his return to Rome, Nobilior celebrated a triumph (of which full details are given by Livy) remarkable for the magnificence of the spoils exhibited. On his Aetolian campaign he was accompanied by the poet Ennius, who made the capture of Ambracia, at which he was present, the subject of one of his plays. For this Nobilior was strongly opposed by Cato the Censor, on the ground that he had compromised his dignity as a Roman general.

He restored the temple of Hercules and the Muses in the Circus Flaminius, placed in it a list of Fasti drawn up by himself, and endeavoured to make the Roman calendar more generally known. He was a great enthusiast for Greek art and culture, and introduced many of its masterpieces into Rome, amongst them the picture of the Muses by Zeuxis from Ambracia. This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

Preceded by Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus and Gaius Laelius

Consul of the Roman Republic with Gnaeus Manlius Vulso 189 BC

Succeeded by Gaius Livius Salinator and Marcus Valerius Messalla