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{{short description|1st century AD Roman senator, consul and provincial governor}}
'''Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus ''' was a [[Roman Senate|Roman senator]] who lived in the reign of [[Nero]]. He was [[Roman consul|suffect consul]] in 52, but later attracted the hatred of [[Nero]], and upon being condemned to death committed suicide.  He was associated with a group of Stoics opposed to the perceived tyranny and autocratic tendencies of certain emperors, known today as the [[Stoic Opposition]].

== Life and career ==
Soranus was a member of the [[Marcia (gens)|gens Marcia]]; his father, [[Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus (consul 34)|Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus]], had been a suffect consul as well as governor of [[Africa (Roman province)|Africa]]. His brother was [[Quintus Marcius Barea Sura]], friend of the future emperor [[Vespasian]] and maternal grandfather of [[Trajan]].

His career prior to becoming consul is not well known. Subsequent to holding the ''[[fasces]]'', Soranus was governor of [[Asia (Roman province)|Asia]] around 61/62.<ref name=Tacitus-23>[[Tacitus]], ''[[Annals (Tacitus)|Annals]]'', xvi.23</ref> During this tenure, the Emperor Nero had ordered his freedman Acrato to take away the works of art of the city of [[Pergamon]], but the people revolted; Soranus refused to follow the orders of the Emperor and punish its citizens.<ref name=Tacitus-23/>

== Trial and death ==
Soranus was accused by [[Ostorius Sabinus]], an equestrian, of being friends with [[Rubellius Plautus]] (another object of Nero's hatred), and for inciting the citizens of Asia to revolt.<ref name=Tacitus-30>Tacitus, ''Annals'', xvi.30</ref> One of the chief witnesses against him was [[Publius Egnatius Celer|Egnatius Celer]] of Berytus, his client and former tutor. Soranus' daughter, Servilia, was also accused of having hired a sorcerer (''[[magi]]''), and was tried together with her father.<ref name=Tacitus-30/> Servilia confessed that she had consulted an astrologer, but only to pray in honor of her father and the emperor;<ref>Tacitus, ''Annals'', xvi.31</ref> Soranus asked that his daughter be spared because she was not involved in the conspiracy or aware of the misdeeds of her husband, [[Gaius Annius Pollio]].<ref>Tacitus, ''Annals'', xvi.32</ref> In the end, Soranus was condemned to death (in 65 or 66), and committed suicide.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Soranus, Barea|volume=25|page=430}}</ref>

== Family ==
Soranus is known to have one daughter, [[Marcia Servilia Sorana]], better known as "Servilia".<ref>Julian Bennett, ''Trajan: Optimus Princeps'' (Routledge, 2003), p. 13 {{ISBN|978-11-3470-914-4}}</ref>

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== In modern day ==

Juan Pablo Barea - a teacher in the Dutch school and one of the strongest Jiu Jitsu fighters in Netherlands.

==References==
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== Further reading ==
*Tacitus, ''Histories'' iv.10
*Juvenal, [[Satire III]].116 
*[[Dio Cassius]], lxii.26

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