Prosopographia Imperii Romani

The first edition was rapidly achieved and published in Berlin in the line of the great works of scholarship from the historical school of economics which had been successful in achieving the project of a corpus of all the Latin inscriptions, the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. Led by Elimar Klebs, Hermann Dessau and Paul von Rohden, the first edition of the PIR was edited in three volumes from 1897 to 1898. == Second edition ==

The implementation of a second edition was last updated in 1933 for publication in Berlin. The first booklet of the second edition was led by Edmund Groag and Arthur Stein The index of names and people integral to the PIR was in the meantime made searchable on the website of the PIR. Volume 2 of the PIR includes notes for all the well-known Roman senators, the nobles, and some civil servants not of equestrian rank, such as manumitted imperial freedmen who are attested in the literary tradition. Entries in the PIR are indexed by the initial letter of the name, then by the number of the entry, e.g. Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus is cited as PIR2 C 973 (the 973rd entry under the letter C). == See also ==