Julius Julianus (fl. 315–325) was a Roman politician, the grandfather and namesake of the future emperor Julian.
Life
editHe served Licinius as praetorian prefect from at least spring 315 to September 324, until Constantine I definitively defeated Licinius. However, the fall of Licinius did not mark the end of Julianus' career, as Constantine had praised Julianus' administration of the State[1] and chose him, in 325, as suffect to replace a consul fallen in disgrace, Valerius Proculus.[2] He also served as Praefectus Aegypti in 328. [citation needed]
He was the father of Basilina,[3] wife of Constantine's half-brother Julius Constantius and mother of Emperor Julian,[4] and of the mother of Procopius; he was probably related to Eusebius of Nicomedia. [citation needed] Julianus was the master of the Gothic philosopher slave Mardonius, who was the teacher of both Basilina and Julian. [citation needed]
References
edit- ↑ Libanius 1969, 18.9.
- ↑ Salway, Benet (2008). "Roman consuls, imperial politics, and Egyptian papyri: the consulates of 325 and 344 CE". Journal of Late Antiquity. 1 (2): 278–310. doi:10.1353/jla.0.0013. S2CID 155014745. Retrieved Apr 18, 2019.
- ↑ Libanius 1969, 18.8 (b).
- ↑ Jones, Martindale & Morris 1971, pp. 478–479.
Sources
edit- Jones, A. H. M.; Martindale, J. R.; Morris, J. (1971). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. Vol. 1: A.D. 260-395. Cambridge [Eng.]: University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-07233-5. OCLC 473073982.
- Libanius (1969). "Funeral Oration over Julian". In Warmington, E. H. (ed.). Selected Orations. Vol. 1. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press. OCLC 1485582315 – via Internet Archive.
Further reading
edit- Barnes, Timothy D. (1996). Constantine and Eusebius. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Pr. pp. 70, 214. ISBN 978-0-674-16531-1. OCLC 1483007270.
- Browning, Robert (1978). The Emperor Julian. Berkeley Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-520-03731-1. OCLC 1033567818 – via Internet Archive.