Coin of Philip the Arab. Obverse shows Julius Marinus. Julius Marinus was the father of Roman Emperor Philip the Arab and Philip's brother Gaius Julius Priscus .
Life
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] Roman citizenship .[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
References
^ 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.
