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.Pat Southern , The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine (Psychology Press, 2001), 71.
He was a Roman citizen from what is today Shahba, about southeast of Damascus; in the Trachonitis district and then in the Roman province of Arabia.
In life Marinus was possibly of some importance.Meckler, Philip the Arab By descent from Marinus, Philip held Roman citizenship.Ball, Wawrick, Rome in the East: the transformation of an empire, pg. 417The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Biography, Houghton-Mifflin, London 2003: p1203Riverside Dictionary Of Biography, Houghton-Mifflin, London 2004: p603.
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