Lucius Fundanius Lamia Aelianus

Summary

Lucius Fundanius Lamia Aelianus was a Roman senator active in the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian.

Lucius Fundanius Lamia Aelianus
SpouseRupilia
ChildrenLucius Plautius Lamia Silvanus
Fundania
Parents
  • Lucius Fundanius (father)
  • Plautia (mother)

Biography edit

Early life edit

Lamia Aelianus was possibly the son of the empress Domitia Longina and Lucius Aelius Lamia Plautius Aelianus[1][2] or their maternal grandson through a daughter Aelia Plautia and her husband a Lucius Fundanius, son of a Lucius Fundanius.[3][4] Ronald Syme 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.[5]

Career edit

He was ordinary consul in 116 with Sextus Carminius Vetus as his colleague. He was later proconsular governor of Asia during 131 and 132.[6]

Family edit

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, 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, daughter of Marcus Annius Libo, consul in 128, and thus Libo's wife.[7]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Ronald Syme, "Antonine Relatives: Ceionii and Vettulani", Athenaeum 35 (1957), p. 309
  2. ^ Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae. Bardi. 1963. p. 55. ISBN 9789514102608.
  3. ^ Aelii Lamiae, stema
  4. ^ Birley, Anthony R (2012). Marcus Aurelius: A Biography (reworked ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9781134695690.
  5. ^ Syme, "Antonine Relatives", pp. 306-315
  6. ^ Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 13 (1983), p. 172
  7. ^ Anthony Birley, Marcus Aurelius, a Biography, revised edition (London: Routledge, 1987), p. 32
Political offices
Preceded byas suffect consuls Consul of the Roman Empire
AD 116
with Sextus Carminius Vetus
Succeeded by
Tiberius Julius Secundus,
and Marcus Egnatius Marcellinus
as suffect consuls