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Julius (fem. Julia
Julia

Julia is usually a woman's given name or a surname. It is of Latin origin and means "youthful". It is a well-used name throughout the world. It was the 10th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2007 and the 88th most popular name for females in the 1990 census there....
) is the nomen of the gens Julia, an important patrician
Patrician

The term "patrician" originally referred to a group of elitism citizens in ancient Rome, including both their natural and adopted members. In the late Roman empire, the class was broadened to include high council officials, and after the fall of the Western Empire became a term for Byzantine Imperial governors in the West....
 family of ancient Rome
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 supposed to have descended from Julus, and thus from the goddess Venus
Venus (mythology)

Venus was a major Roman mythology goddess principally associated with love, beauty and sexual reproduction, the equivalent of the Greek mythology Aphrodite....
. (See also: Julio-Claudian dynasty
Julio-Claudian Dynasty

The Julio-Claudian Dynasty refers to the four Roman Emperors: Tiberius, Caligula , Claudius, and Nero. They ruled the Roman Empire from 27 BC to AD 68, when the last of the line, Nero, committed suicide....
 - Julia Caesaris
Julia Caesaris

Julia Caesaris is the name of all women in the Julii Caesares patrician family , since feminine names were their father's Roman naming convention and Roman naming convention declined in the female form....
). They apparently originated from Alba Longa
Alba Longa

Alba Longa was an ancient city of Latium in central Italian Peninsula southeast of Ancient Rome in the Alban Hills. Founder and head of the Latin League, it was destroyed by Rome around the middle of the 7th century BC....
, which was reputedly founded by Julus (also known as Ascanius), son of Aeneas
Aeneas

This article is about the Roman hero. For other uses, see Aeneas .In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas was a Troy hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Venus_....
 (reputed ancestor of Romulus
Romulus

Romulus may refer to any of these articles:...
 and Remus
Remus

Remus could refer to any of the following:* Remus, twin brother of the mythical founder of Rome, Romulus ? see Romulus and Remus* Remus , the twin of the Romulans' fictional homeworld in Star Trek...
).

The name is also seen as Iulius and Iulia. There were many thousands of people bearing it, since the freedman took the gens name of their previous owners, thus many freedmen of the Julio-Claudian emperors received this name.






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Julius (fem. Julia
Julia

Julia is usually a woman's given name or a surname. It is of Latin origin and means "youthful". It is a well-used name throughout the world. It was the 10th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2007 and the 88th most popular name for females in the 1990 census there....
) is the nomen of the gens Julia, an important patrician
Patrician

The term "patrician" originally referred to a group of elitism citizens in ancient Rome, including both their natural and adopted members. In the late Roman empire, the class was broadened to include high council officials, and after the fall of the Western Empire became a term for Byzantine Imperial governors in the West....
 family of ancient Rome
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 supposed to have descended from Julus, and thus from the goddess Venus
Venus (mythology)

Venus was a major Roman mythology goddess principally associated with love, beauty and sexual reproduction, the equivalent of the Greek mythology Aphrodite....
. (See also: Julio-Claudian dynasty
Julio-Claudian Dynasty

The Julio-Claudian Dynasty refers to the four Roman Emperors: Tiberius, Caligula , Claudius, and Nero. They ruled the Roman Empire from 27 BC to AD 68, when the last of the line, Nero, committed suicide....
 - Julia Caesaris
Julia Caesaris

Julia Caesaris is the name of all women in the Julii Caesares patrician family , since feminine names were their father's Roman naming convention and Roman naming convention declined in the female form....
). They apparently originated from Alba Longa
Alba Longa

Alba Longa was an ancient city of Latium in central Italian Peninsula southeast of Ancient Rome in the Alban Hills. Founder and head of the Latin League, it was destroyed by Rome around the middle of the 7th century BC....
, which was reputedly founded by Julus (also known as Ascanius), son of Aeneas
Aeneas

This article is about the Roman hero. For other uses, see Aeneas .In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas was a Troy hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Venus_....
 (reputed ancestor of Romulus
Romulus

Romulus may refer to any of these articles:...
 and Remus
Remus

Remus could refer to any of the following:* Remus, twin brother of the mythical founder of Rome, Romulus ? see Romulus and Remus* Remus , the twin of the Romulans' fictional homeworld in Star Trek...
).

The name is also seen as Iulius and Iulia. There were many thousands of people bearing it, since the freedman took the gens name of their previous owners, thus many freedmen of the Julio-Claudian emperors received this name. The name lives on as a personal name
Personal name

A personal name is the proper name identifying an individual person, and usually comprises a given name bestowed at Childbirth or at a young age....
, as Julius or in derived forms such as French Jules
Jules

Jules may refer to:*Didacus Jules, a St. Lucian educator*Gary Jules , an American singer-songwriter*Jules Brunet, a French General*Jules Feiffer, an American cartoonist...
, Spanish Julio
Julio

Julio is a given name related to JuliusPeople with the given name Julio:*Julio In geography:* 9 de Julio Avenue* Nueve de Julio, Buenos Aires...
, Romanian Iuliu
Iuliu

Iuliu is a Romanian language male given name derived from Latin Iulius. The female form is Iulia. In other cases Iuliu is the Romanianization form of the Hungarian language name Gyula....
, et cetera.

Julii Caesares
Julii Caesares

A subdivision of the patrician Julius family in the Roman Republic, the beginnings of the Julian side of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. All its members had the Roman naming convention#Nomen gentile Julius and the Roman naming convention#cognomen Caesar and can only be told apart by numbers and differing Roman naming convention#Praenomen....
, all with the 'Julius Caesar' nomen and cognomen
Cognomen

The cognomen was originally a middle name of a citizen of Ancient Rome, under Roman naming conventions. The cognomen started as a nickname, but lost that purpose when it became hereditary ....
 combination, but differing praenomen
Praenomen

In Roman naming conventions, the praenomen was the only name in which parents had some choice, roughly equivalent to the given name of today....
s, most famously:
  • Gaius Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar

    'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
    , the dictator, who was deified as the Divine Julius
  • See also other members of the family—men named Sextus
    Sextus Julius Caesar

    Sextus Julius Caesar was the name of several men of the Julii Caesares family in ancient Rome....
    , Gaius
    Gaius Julius Caesar

    Gaius Julius Caesar most commonly refers to:* Gaius Julius Caesar , conqueror of Gaul, dictatorGaius Julius Caesar may also refer to:* Gaius Julius Caesar , a fictionalized version of the above in the HBO/BBC2 series Rome, played by Ciar?n Hinds...
    , Lucius
    Lucius Julius Caesar

    In Ancient Rome, several men of the Julii Caesares family were named Lucius Julius Caesar. Distinct by their praenomen, "Lucius", none of these members of the Julii Caesares family can be confused with their distant relative and much more famous Julius Caesar, the Roman who conquered Gaul, became dictator for life, and then was murdered by Ro...
    , and Numerius; women were all named Julia Caesaris
    Julia Caesaris

    Julia Caesaris is the name of all women in the Julii Caesares patrician family , since feminine names were their father's Roman naming convention and Roman naming convention declined in the female form....


Members of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty
Julio-Claudian Dynasty

The Julio-Claudian Dynasty refers to the four Roman Emperors: Tiberius, Caligula , Claudius, and Nero. They ruled the Roman Empire from 27 BC to AD 68, when the last of the line, Nero, committed suicide....
:
  • Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (by adoption) (the emperor Augustus)
  • Julia Augusta (by adoption)
  • Julia Caesaris Augusti, daughter of Augustus
  • Gaius Julius Caesar
    Gaius Caesar

    Gaius Julius Caesar , most commonly known as Gaius Caesar or Caius Caesar, was the oldest son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder.....
     (by adoption)
  • Lucius Julius Caesar
    Lucius Caesar

    Lucius Julius Caesar , most commonly known as Lucius Caesar, was the second son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder. He was born with the name Lucius Vipsanius Agrippa, but when he was adopted by his maternal grandfather Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus, his name was changed to Lucius Julius Caesar....
     (by adoption)
  • Marcus Julius Caesar Agrippa Postumus (by adoption)
  • Tiberius Julius Caesar
    Tiberius

    Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero , was the second Roman Emperor, from the death of Augustus in AD 14 until his own death in 37....
     (by adoption) (the emperor Tiberius)
  • Drusus Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar Drusus

    Nero Claudius Drusus, later Drusus Julius Caesar , was the only child of Roman Emperor Tiberius and his first wife, Vipsania Agrippina. He was born with the name Nero Claudius Drusus, and is also known to historians as Drusus II and Drusus Minor....
     (by adoption)
  • Tiberius Julius Caesar Nero Gemellus
    Tiberius Gemellus

    Tiberius Julius Caesar Nero Gemellus, known as Tiberius Gemellus, was the son of Drusus Julius Caesar and Livilla, the grandson of Tiberius, and the cousin of Gaius Caligula....
  • Germanicus Julius Caesar
    Germanicus

    Germanicus Julius Caesar Claudianus . Born in Lugdunum, Gaul , was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of the early Roman Empire. At birth he was named either Nero Claudius Drusus after his father or Tiberius Claudius Nero after his uncle and received the agnomen Germanicus, by which he is principally known, in 9 BC, when...
     (by adoption)
  • Julia Caesaris
    Julia Caesaris

    Julia Caesaris is the name of all women in the Julii Caesares patrician family , since feminine names were their father's Roman naming convention and Roman naming convention declined in the female form....
    , several women related to Julius and Augustus Caesar
  • Nero Julius Caesar Germanicus
    Nero Caesar

    Nero Julius Caesar Germanicus was a close relative of the Roman Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.Nero was born in 6 to Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder....
  • Drusus Julius Caesar Germanicus
    Drusus Caesar

    Drusus Julius Caesar, also referred to as Drusus III , was a member of a noble family of Ancient Rome. He was a son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder....
  • Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus (the emperor Caligula)


Several other emperors:
  • Marcus Julius Verus Philippus
  • Flavius Julius Valens
    Valens

    Flamin Julius Valens was Roman Emperor , after he was given the Eastern part of the empire by his brother Valentinian I. Valens, sometimes known as the Last of the Romans, was defeated and killed in the Battle of Adrianople, which marked the beginning of the fall of the Western Roman Empire....
     (Valens)
  • Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus (Maximinus Thrax
    Maximinus Thrax

    Gaius Iulius Verus Maximinus , also known as Maximinus Thrax and Maximinus I, was a Roman Emperor .Maximinus is described by several ancient sources as the first barbarian who wore the imperial purple and the first emperor never to set foot in Rome....
    )
  • Julius Valerius Maiorianus (Majoran)
  • Julius Nepos
    Julius Nepos

    Flavius Julius Nepos was a Roman Emperor of the West during the Roman Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Some historians consider him to be the last De jure Western Emperor, others consider the western line to have ended with Romulus Augustus in 476....


Other people:
  • Gnaeus Julius Agricola
    Gnaeus Julius Agricola

    Gnaeus Julius Agricola was a Roman Empire general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Roman Britain. His biography, the Agricola , was the first published work of his son-in-law, the historian Tacitus, and is the source for most of what is known about him....
    , conqueror of Britannia
    Britannia

    Britannia was the term originally used by the Roman Empire to refer to the island of Great Britain. The term was later used to describe a Roman province covering much of the island, apart from the area beyond the Antonine Wall belonging to the Picts in the north, which was known as Caledonia....
  • Gaius Julius Civilis
    Gaius Julius Civilis

    Gaius Julius Civilis was the leader of the Batavian rebellion against the Romans in 69. By his nomen, it can be told that he was made a Roman citizen by either Augustus or Caligula....
    , leader of the Batavian rebellion
    Batavian rebellion

    The Revolt of the Batavi took place in the Roman province of Germania Inferior between 69 and 70 AD. It was an uprising against Roman rule by the Batavi and other tribes in the province and in Gaul....
     (69
    69

    Year 69 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar....
    )
  • Gaius Julius Hyginus
    Gaius Julius Hyginus

    Gaius Julius Hyginus was a Latin author, though whether a native of Spain or of Alexandria it is not clear, a pupil of the famous Alexander Cornelius, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus, by whom he was made superintendent of the Palatine library, according to Suetonius' minor works, De Grammaticis, 20....
    , writer, 1st century
  • Sextus Julius Frontinus
    Sextus Julius Frontinus

    Sextus Julius Frontinus was one of the most distinguished Roman Empire aristocrats of the late first century AD, but is best known to the post-Classical world as an author of technical treatises, especially one dealing with the aqueducts of Rome....
    , writer and politician, 1st century
  • Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus
    Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus

    Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus was procurator of Roman Britain from 61 to his death in 65.He was appointed after his predecessor, Catus Decianus, had fled to Gaul in the aftermath of the rebellion of Boudica....
    , governor of Britannia, 1st century
    • Julia Pacata
      Julia Pacata

      Julia Pacata was the daughter of Julius Indus, a 1st century nobleman of the Gaulish Treveri who helped put down a Gaulish rebellion in 21 and led an auxiliaries cavalry unit in the Roman army, the Ala Gallorum Indiana....
      , wife of the previous
    • Julius Indus
      Julius Indus

      Julius Indus was a nobleman of the Gaulish Treveri tribe. In 21 AD he helped the Romans put down a rebellion of the Treveri and Aedui. He went on to lead the Ala Gallorum Indiana Ala which may have been involved in the Roman invasion of Britain, and was certainly posted at Corinum in the mid-to-late 1st century....
      , Gaul
      Gaul

      Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
      ish commander, father of the previous
  • Gaius Julius Callistus
    Gaius Julius Callistus

    Gaius Julius Callistus was a Greek imperial freedman during the reigns of Roman Emperors Caligula and Claudius. Callistus was originally a freedman of Caligula, and was given great authority during his reign, which he used to amass even greater wealth....
    , freedman, 1st century
  • Sextus Julius Africanus
    Sextus Julius Africanus

    Sextus Julius Africanus, was a Christian traveller and historian of the early 3rd century AD. He was possibly born in Libya, though he calls himself a native of Jerusalem, which some scholars take as his hometown....
    , historian, 3rd century
  • Gaius Julius Solinus
    Gaius Julius Solinus

    Gaius Julius Solinus, Latin grammarian and compiler, probably flourished around the middle of the fourth century, though historical scholar Theodor Mommsen dates him to the middle of the third century....
    , grammarian 3rd century
  • Iulius Obsequens
    Iulius Obsequens

    Julius Obsequens was a Ancient Rome writer who is believed to have lived in the middle of the fourth century AD. The only work associated with his name is the Liber de prodigiis , completely extracted from an epitome, or abridgment, written by Livy; De prodigiis was constructed as an account of the wonders and portents that occurred i...
    , ancient UFO writer, middle 4th century
  • Gaius Julius Eurycles
  • Julius Atticus
  • Julius Graecinus, father of Gnaeus Julius Agricola
    Gnaeus Julius Agricola

    Gnaeus Julius Agricola was a Roman Empire general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Roman Britain. His biography, the Agricola , was the first published work of his son-in-law, the historian Tacitus, and is the source for most of what is known about him....
  • Julia Procilla, mother of Gnaeus Julius Agricola
    Gnaeus Julius Agricola

    Gnaeus Julius Agricola was a Roman Empire general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Roman Britain. His biography, the Agricola , was the first published work of his son-in-law, the historian Tacitus, and is the source for most of what is known about him....
  • Gaius Julius Vindex, governor of Lusitania
    Lusitania

    Lusitania was an ancient Ancient Rome Roman province including approximately all of modern Portugal south of the Douro river, and part of modern Spain ....
  • Julius Sacrovir, noble of Aedui
  • Gaius Julius Antiochus Epiphanes Philopappus
    Philopappos

    Gaius Julius Antiochus Epiphanes Philopappos or Philopappus, was a Prince of the Kingdom of Commagene who lived in the Roman Empire during the 1st century and 2nd century....
    , consul and Syrian prince
  • Julius Paulus, jurist
  • Julius Exsuperantius, historian 4th century
  • Julius van Bastelaar, Dutch/Canadian soccerplayer


Other uses:
  • Julius (New York City)
    Julius (New York City)

    Julius is a tavern in the New York City Greenwich Village neighborhood that is the oldest continuously operating Gay bar in New York and played an important role in the events leading up to the Stonewall riots....
    , New York City's oldest Gay bar
    Gay bar

    A gay bar is a Bar that caters to an exclusively gay and/or lesbian clientele. Gay bars once served as the epicentre of gay culture. Other names used to describe these establishments include, boy bar, girl bar, gay club, gay Public house, queer bar, lesbian bar, and dyke bar depending on the niche they fill....
  • The House of Julii is one of the playable factions in the video game Rome:Total War.