Julius Marinus
Julius Marinus was the father of Roman Emperor Philip the Arab and Philip's brother Gaius Julius Priscus.
Life
[edit]He was deified by his son. Scholar Pat Southern writes that this deification was unusual because Marinus was not an emperor, but it gave Philip's reign more legitimacy.[1]
He was a Roman citizen from what is today Shahba, about 55 miles (89 km) southeast of Damascus; in the Trachonitis district and then in the Roman province of Arabia.
In life Marinus was possibly of some importance.[2] By descent from Marinus, Philip held Roman citizenship.[3][4][5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ Pat Southern , The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine (Psychology Press, 2001), 71.
- ^ Meckler, Philip the Arab
- ^ Ball, Wawrick, Rome in the East: the transformation of an empire, pg. 417
- ^ Ball, Warwick (2000). Rome in the East: the transformation of an empire. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-24357-2.
- ^ The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Biography, Houghton-Mifflin, London 2003: p1203
- ^ Riverside Dictionary Of Biography, Houghton-Mifflin, London 2004: p603.
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