Julius Julianus
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Julius Julianus (fl. 315–325) was a Roman politician, the grandfather and namesake of the future emperor Julian.
He 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.
He was the father of Basilina, wife of Constantine's half-brother Julius Constantius and mother of Emperor Julian,[3] and of the mother of Procopius; he was probably related to Eusebius of Nicomedia. Julianus was the master of the Gothic philosopher slave Mardonius, who was the teacher of both Basilina and Julian.
Notes
- ↑ Libanius, Orations 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.
- ↑ Jones, Martindale & Morris, pp. 478–479.
Bibliography
- Timothy David Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, Harvard University Press, 1981, ISBN 0-674-16531-4, pp. 70, 214.
- Robert Browning, The Emperor Julian, University of California Press, 1978, ISBN 0-520-03731-6, p. 32.
- Jones, A.H.M.; J.R. Martindale & J. Morris (1971). Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-07233-6.
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| Preceded by | Roman consul 325 with Sex. Anicius Paulinus |
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