Julius
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- For other meanings of Julius see Julius (disambiguation)
Julius (fem. Julia) is the nomen of the gens Julia, an important patrician family of ancient Rome supposed to have descended from Julus, and thus from the goddess Venus. (See also: Julio-Claudian dynasty - Julia Caesaris)
The name is also seen as Iulius and Iulia. There were many thousands of people bearing it, since the freedman took the gens name of their previous owners, thus many freedmen of the Julio-Claudian emperors received this name. The name lives on as a personal name.
Julii Caesares, all with the 'Julius Caesar' nomen and cognomnen combination, but differing praenomens, most famously:
- Gaius Julius Caesar, the dictator, who was deified as the Divine Julius
- See also other members of the family - men named Sextus, Gaius, Lucius, and Numerius; women were all named Julia Caesaris
Members of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty:
- Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus (by adoption)
- Julia Augusta (by adoption)
- Julia Caesaris Augusti, daughter of Augustus
- Tiberius Julius Caesar (by adoption)
- Julia Caesaris, several women related to Julius and Augustus Caesar
- Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus (Caligula)
Several other emperors:
- Marcus Julius Verus Philippus
- Flavius Julius Valens (Valens)
- Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus (Maximinus Thrax)
- Julius Valerius Maiorianus (Majoran)
- Julius Nepos
Other people:
- Gnaeus Julius Agricola, conqueror of Britannia
- Gaius Julius Civilis, leader of the Batavian rebellion (69)
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, writer, 1st century
- Sextus Julius Frontinus, writer and politician, 1st century
- Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus, governor of Britannia, 1st century
- Julia Pacata, wife of the previous
- Julius Indus, Gaulish commander, father of the previous
- Gaius Julius Callistus, freedman, 1st century
- Sextus Julius Africanus, historian, 3rd century
- Gaius Julius Solinus, grammarian 3rd century
- Iulius Obsequens, ancient UFO writer, middle 4th century
- Gaius Julius Eurycles
- Julius Atticus
- Julius Graecinus, father of Gnaeus Julius Agricola
- Julia Procilla, mother of Gnaeus Julius Agricola
- Gaius Julius Vindex, governor of Lusitania
- Julius Sacrovir, noble of Aedui
- Gaius Julius Antiochus Epiphanes Philopappus, consul and Syrian prince
- Julius Paulus, jurist
- Julius Exsuperantius, historian 4th century
[edit] Saints
- Julius, a British martyr who died in 304 AD. See Julius and Aaron.
- Saint Julius the Veteran, Catholic saint and martyr.
[edit] Popes
[edit] Trivia
- The faction House of Julii from the computer game Rome: Total War uses Julius as the family name (loosely based on the patrician family in ancient Rome).
