Julius Julianus (fl. 315–325 AD) was a Roman politician, the grandfather and namesake of the future emperor Julian.

Life

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He served Licinius as praetorian prefect from at least spring 315 to September 324, until Constantine I definitively defeated Licinius. However, the fall of Licinius did not mark the end of Julianus' career, as Constantine had praised Julianus' administration of the State[1] and chose him, in 325, as suffect to replace a consul fallen in disgrace, Valerius Proculus.[2] He also served as Praefectus Aegypti in 328.

He was the father of Basilina, wife of Constantine's half-brother Julius Constantius and mother of Emperor Julian,[3] and of the mother of Procopius; he was probably related to Eusebius of Nicomedia. Julianus was the master of the Gothic philosopher slave Mardonius, who was the teacher of both Basilina and Julian.

Notes

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  1. ^ Libanius, Orations 18.9
  2. ^ Salway, Benet (2008). "Roman consuls, imperial politics, and Egyptian papyri: the consulates of 325 and 344 CE". Journal of Late Antiquity. 1 (2): 278–310. doi:10.1353/jla.0.0013. S2CID 155014745. Retrieved Apr 18, 2019.
  3. ^ Jones, Martindale & Morris, pp. 478–479.

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Political offices
Preceded by Roman consul
325
with Sex. Anicius Paulinus
Succeeded by