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Gaius Julius Severus (consul 155)
Gaius Julius Severus was a Roman senator and aristocrat of the second century. He was suffect consul around the year 138. Severus was a member of the ancient aristocracy of Asia Minor that persisted into Roman times. He claimed to have descended from Celtic and Macedonian Greek royalty, especially Attalus II, ruler of Galatia. More certainly, he was the son of Gaius Julius Quadratus. He is known to have a brother, Julius Amyntianus,Corbier''L'aerarium saturni et l'aerarium militare; Administration et prosopographie sénatoriale'' Publications de l'École française de Rome, 24 (Rome: École Française de Rome, 1974),p. 200 and he is attested to have married Claudia Aquilla. Career Severus is notable for having held offices both in the ''cursus'' of his native Ancyra, the capital of Roman Galatia, as well as in the Roman ''cursus honorum''. At a young age Severus held the offices of ''agoranoma'', or overseer of the marketplace, ''agonothet''; or overseer of the local games; and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post-Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia, and was ruled by emperors. From the accession of Caesar Augustus as the first Roman emperor to the military anarchy of the 3rd century, it was a Principate with Italia as the metropole of its provinces and the city of Rome as its sole capital. The Empire was later ruled by multiple emperors who shared control over the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. The city of Rome remained the nominal capital of both parts until AD 476 when the imperial insignia were sent to Constantinople following the capture of the Western capital of Ravenna by the Germanic barbarians. The adoption of Christianity as the state church of the Roman Empire in AD 380 and the fall of the Western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
