to Maximus but declined because he believed his sister would not enjoy having a Barbarian for a father-in-law. Maximinus appointed his son Maximus Caesar...

The first to adopt the inclytus alternative to maximus may have been the rebel augustus Magnus Maximus (r. 383–388). The word pontifex and its derivative...

aside to use as a sacrifice to Jupiter Optimus Maximus. "Jupiter alone of the Romans is king", Caesar said, which received an enthusiastic response from...

broadly supported by the Senate. In 63 BC, Caesar stood for the praetorship and also for the post of pontifex maximus, who was the head of the College of Pontiffs...

Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus (c. 164 – 238) was Roman emperor with Balbinus for 99 days in 238, during the Year of the Six Emperors. The sources for...

Lepidus had previously been a close ally of Julius Caesar. He was also the last pontifex maximus before the Roman Empire, and (presumably) the last interrex...

wife Cornelia having died in 69 BC. In 63 BC, Caesar was elected to the position of the Pontifex Maximus, the chief priest of the Roman state religion...

crowd to let Maximus live. That evening, Maximus is visited by Lucilla, his former lover and Commodus's sister. Distrusting her, Maximus refuses her help...

Julia (c. 76 BC – August 54 BC) was the daughter of Julius Caesar and his first or second wife Cornelia, and his only child from his marriages. Julia became...

Empire in the early 5th century Palladius (Caesar) (420–455), son of Western Roman Emperor Petronius Maximus, Caesar of the Western Roman Empire Palladius...