page_title: Herennia (gens)
section_title: Bibliography
hierarchical_section_title: Herennia (gens) / Bibliography
caption_attribution_description: English: Antoninianus featuring empress Herennia Etruscilla
context_page_description: The gens Herennia was a plebeian family at Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned among the Italian nobility during the Samnite Wars, and they appear in the Roman consular list beginning in 93 BC. In Imperial times they held a number of provincial offices and military commands. The empress Herennia Etruscilla was a descendant of this gens.
  The extensive mercantile interests of the Herennii are attested by several authors, who describe the family's participation in the Sicilian and African trade, and especially their involvement in purchasing and exporting silphium, a medicinal herb of great value in antiquity, which grew only along a short stretch of the African coast, and defied all attempts to cultivate it. The Herennian interest in trade is attested by the surname Siculus, the settlement of a merchant named Herennius at Leptis Magna, the legend of the founding of a temple to Hercules at Rome, and a coin of the gens bearing a representation of the goddess Pietas on the obverse, and on the reverse Amphinomus carrying his father, a reference to the legend of the two brothers of Catana, who escaped an eruption of Mount Aetna carrying their aged parents.
context_section_description: Polybius, Historiae.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Brutus, Epistulae ad Atticum, In Verrem, Pro Murena, Rhetorica ad Herennium (attributed), Pro Caelio, Epistulae ad Familiares.
  Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust), Historiae.
  Titus Livius (Livy), History of Rome.
  Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Romaike Archaiologia (Roman Antiquities).
  Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac Dictorum Memorabilium (Memorable Facts and Sayings).
  Quintus Asconius Pedianus, Commentarius in Oratio Ciceronis Pro Milone (Commentary on Cicero's Oration Pro Milone).
  Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Naturalis Historia (Natural History).
  Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger), Epistulae.
  Appianus Alexandrinus (Appian), Bellum Samniticum (History of the Samnite Wars).
  Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Plutarch), Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans.
  Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae (Antiquities of the Jews).
  Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Historiae, De Vita et Moribus Iulii Agricolae (On the Life and Mores of Julius Agricola).
  Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (Cassius Dio), Roman History.
  Julius Obsequens, Liber de Prodigiis (The Book of Prodigies).
  Sextus Aurelius Victor, De Caesaribus (On the Caesars), Epitome de Caesaribus (Extracts of On the Caesars, attributed).
  Servius, Ad Virgilii Aeneidem commentarii (Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid).
  Claudius Claudianus (Claudian), Carmina Minora (Lesser Poems).
  Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Saturnalia.
  Joannes Zonaras, Epitome Historiarum (Extracts of History).
  Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Novus Thesaurus Veterum Inscriptionum (New Treasury of Ancient Inscriptions), Milan (1739-42).
  Francesco Scipione, Marchese di Maffei, Museum Veronense, hoc est, Antiquarum Inscriptionum atque Anaglyphorum Collectio (Museum of Verona, or a Collection of Antique Inscriptions and Reliefs).
  Joseph Hilarius Eckhel, Doctrina Numorum Veterum (The Study of Ancient Coins).
  Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
  George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII (1897).
  T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, American Philological Association (1952–1986).
  E. Mary Smallwood, Documents Illustrating the Principates of Nerva, Trajan, and Hadrian, Cambridge University Press (1966).
  Paul A. Gallivan, "The Fasti for A.D. 70–96", in Classical Quarterly, vol. 31, pp. 186–220 (1981).
  Olli Salomies, Adoptive and Polyonymous Nomenclature in the Roman Empire, Societas Scientiarum Fenica, Helsinki (1992).
  John C. Traupman, The New College Latin & English Dictionary (Bantam, 1995).
  Werner Eck and Andreas Pangerl, "Neue Diplome mit den Namen von Konsuln und Statthaltern," in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, vol. 187 (2013).
caption: Silver Antoninianus of the empress Herennia Etruscilla.
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