Barea Soranus

Roman senator condemned by Nero alongside Thrasea Paetus in 66 CE — one of the Stoic martyrs of the Neronian period whose deaths Tacitus recorded as examples of virtue destroyed by tyranny.

Part of the cluster of Stoic senators whose resistance to Nero and subsequent deaths defined the Stoic political tradition's claim that integrity is maintained even unto death — providing Tacitus with his material for the moral argument that tyranny destroys the best men first.