Marcia (gens)
Members of the gens Marcia are found during the Regal, Republican and Imperial eras. The patrician branch used the cognomen Rex, claiming royal descent from the king Ancus Marcius. The plebeian branches used the cognomina Censorinus (see Marcius Censorinus) and Philippus. Other cognomina are also found.
Men of the gens
- Marcius, paternal grandfather of Ancus Marcius and a friend of Numa Pompilius
- Marcius, father of Ancus Marcius
- Ancus Marcius, fourth king of Rome.[1]
- Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, legendary figure who said to have lived during the 5th century BC and the subject of Shakespeare's play Coriolanus.[2][3]
- Gaius Marcius Rutilus, the first plebeian dictator and censor of ancient Rome.[4]
- Quintus Marcius Philippus, consul in 281 BC.[5]
- Quintus Marcius Rex, tribune of the plebs in 196 BC, proposed to the people to make peace with Philip V of Macedon.[6]
- Lucius Marcius Q. f. Philippus, father of the consul in 186 BC, who formed a hospitable connection with Philip V of Macedon, thought to be the first person in his family to obtain the cognomen Philippus through this connection and that the Fasti calendar erroneusly gave the name to the consul in 281 BC (possibly his father).[7]
- Quintus Marcius L. f. Q. n. Philippus, praetor in 188 BC and governor of Sicily, consul in 186 BC and 169 BC, decemvir sacrorum in 180 BC, censor in 164 BC. [7][8]
- Quintus Marcius Q. f. L. n. Philippus, son of the consul in 186 BC.[8]
- Publius Marcius Rex, who was sent by the Senate with two colleagues with a mission to the consul Gaius Cassius Longinus in 171 BC.[6]
- Quintus Marcius Rex, praetor in 144 BC, namesake of the Aqua Marcia aqueduct.[6]
- Quintus Marcius Rex, grandfather of the consul in 118 BC.
- Quintus Marcius Q. f. Rex, father of the consul in 118 BC, possibly identified with the praetor in 144 BC.
- Quintus Marcius Q. f. Q. n. Rex, consul in 118 BC, paternal great-uncle of Julius Caesar.[6]
- Quintus Marcius Tremulus, consul in 306 BC.
- Marcus Marcius Ralla, praetor urbanus in 204 BC.[9]
- Quintus Marcius Ralla, duumvir in 194 BC, for dedicating a temple, and again in 192 BC for the same purpose.[9]
- Lucius Marcius Q. f. Q. n. Philippus, consul in 91 BC, father of the consul in 56 BC.
- Lucius Marcius L. f. Q. n. Philippus, consul in 56 BC, step-father of Emperor Augustus.
- Lucius Marcius L. f. L. n. Philippus, consul in 38 BC, step-brother of Augustus.
- Quintus Marcius Philippus, proconsul of Asia in 54 BC.[10]
- Quintus Marcius Q. f. (Q. n.) Rex, consul in 68 BC, second cousin of Julius Caesar.[6]
- Gaius Marcius Figulus, consul in 64 BC.
- Quintus Marcius Crispus, officer under Caesar in Caesar's Civil War.
- Quintus Marcius Barea, Suffect Consul in 26 and twice Proconsul of the Africa Province.
- Quintus Marcius Barea Sura, son to the above, friend of Emperor Vespasian and father of Marcia Furnilla.
- Quintus Marcius Barea Servilius Soranus, Roman Senator and brother to the above.
- Marcius Turbo, Roman general during the 2nd century who served under two of the Five Good Emperors.
- Marcius Agrippa (fl. c. 300), Roman beautician and politician.
- One branch of the gens carried the cognomen Censorinus, most notably the consuls of 149 BC and 39 BC; see Marcius Censorinus.
Women of the gens
- Marcia, wife of consul Marcus Atilius Regulus
- Marcia Regina, sister of Quintus Marcius Rex. She married Gaius Julius Caesar II and so became paternal grandmother of dictator Gaius Julius Caesar[11]
- Marcia Philippi, daughter of Lucius Marcius Philippus and wife of Cato the Younger
- Marcia Philippi, niece of the previous, daughter of Lucius Marcius Philippus, consul 38 BC and step-brother of Augustus, and Atia, a maternal aunt of Augustus; wife of a Paullus Fabius Maximus, consul in 11 BC
- (Cremutia) Marcia, daughter of Senator Aulus Cremutius Cordus, who was put to death on orders of Emperor Tiberius in 25
- Marcia, mother of Ulpia Marciana and Emperor Trajan
- Marcia Furnilla, sister to the above and second wife of the Emperor Titus
- Marcia Servilia Sorana, cousin to Furnilla
- Marcia Aurelia Ceionia Demetrias, mistress of Commodus
- Marcia, is a saint of Orthodox Christianity, whose feast day is celebrated on December 18
See also
References
- ↑ "Ancus Marcius" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 379.
- ↑ Plutarch, Life of Coriolanus
- ↑ Shakespeare, Coriolanus
- ↑ Antony Kamm, The Romans, An Introduction, p. 13.
- ↑ Fasti capitolini
- 1 2 3 4 5 Smith 1872, p. 646.
- 1 2 Smith 1872, p. 293.
- 1 2 Smith 1872, p. 294.
- 1 2 Smith 1872, p. 640.
- ↑ Smith 1872, p. 296.
- ↑ Napoleon III. Histoire de Jules César Volume 1, p. 253 Paris: H. Plon 1865
Bibliography
- Smith, William (1872). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology III. London: John Murray, Albermarle Street.
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