Lucius Fundanius Lamia Aelianus was a
Roman
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senator active in the reigns of
Trajan
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and
Hadrian.
Biography
Early life
Lamia Aelianus was possibly the son of the empress
Domitia Longina and
Lucius Aelius Lamia Plautius Aelianus or their maternal grandson through a daughter Aelia Plautia and her husband a Lucius Fundanius, son of a Lucius Fundanius.
Ronald Syme
Sir Ronald Syme, (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roman ...
identifies Lamia Aelianus as the brother of the surmised but undocumented
Plautia, who was married three times, and whose children married into the
Antonine dynasty.
Career
He was
ordinary consul in 116 with
Sextus Carminius Vetus as his colleague. He was later
proconsul
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In the Roman Republic, military command, or ...
ar governor of
Asia
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during 131 and 132.
Family
He married Rupilia, sister of
Rupilia Faustina, wife of
Marcus Annius Verus, three times consul, and perhaps daughter of
Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus and wife
Salonia Matidia, maternal niece of
Trajan
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, and had two known children, a son and a daughter. Their son was
Lucius Plautius Lamia Silvanus, consul in 145. Their daughter was Fundania, whose existence is inferred from the name of her daughter
Annia Fundania Faustina
Annia Fundania Faustina (died 192) was a noble Roman woman who lived in the Roman Empire during the 2nd century AD. She was the paternal cousin of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his sister Annia Cornificia Faustina.
Life
Fundania Faustina was t ...
, daughter of
Marcus Annius Libo
Marcus Annius Libo was a Roman Senator active in the early second century AD.
Life
Libo came from the upper ranks of the Roman aristocracy. He was the son of Marcus Annius Verus, consul III in 126, and Rupilia Faustina. Annius Verus was Spanish o ...
, consul in 128, and thus Libo's wife.
[ Anthony Birley, ''Marcus Aurelius, a Biography'', revised edition (London: Routledge, 1987), p. 32]
See also
*
List of Roman consuls
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References
1st-century Romans
2nd-century Romans
Imperial Roman consuls
Roman governors of Asia
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