The gens Heia was a
Roman family at
Messana, which appears in history during the final century of the
Republic
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. They were part of the ancient nobility of the city, and at some time became hereditary
clientes of the
Claudian gens.
Members
* Gnaeus Heius, one of the judges of the ''Judicium Albianum'', the court that tried Oppianicus in 74 BC.
* Heius, a
Lilybaean, and a ward of
Gaius Claudius Pulcher. The
praetor Verres used his position to despoil Heius of his money and works of art.
* Gaius Heius, led a deputation of citizens from Messana who were brought to Rome in order to testify on behalf of Verres, during his trial in BC 70. Instead, Heius described for the prosecution how Verres had seized numerous artworks belonging to his family, including outstanding works of Greek sculpture.
* Gaius Heius Primus, ''Flamen Augustalis'' at
Olisipo in the time of
Nero, provided the orchestra for the theatre of that city.
[Sear, pp. 7, 13.]
* Marcus Heius,
prefect or governor of
Egypt between AD 42 and 45.
See also
*
List of Roman gentes
References
Bibliography
*
Marcus Tullius Cicero, ''
In Verrem,
Pro Cluentio
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Cluentius, from Larinum in Samnium, was accused in 69 BC by his mother Sassia of having poisoned his stepfather, Statius Abbiu ...
''.
* ''
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'',
William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
* ''
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
The ''Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum'' (''CIL'') is a comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions. It forms an authoritative source for documenting the surviving epigraphy of classical antiquity. Public and personal inscriptions throw ...
''.
* Frank Sear, ''Roman Theatres: an Architectural Study'', Oxford University Press (2006).
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Roman gentes