Gaius Avidius Heliodorus

Gaius Avidius Heliodorus (c. 100 – aft. 142) was a Roman politician and a noted orator.

He was of Greek origin and became ab epistulis under Hadrian and augustal prefect of Egypt between 137 and 142 or between 138 and 140. According to the Historia Augusta, Heliodorus drew the wrath of emperor Hadrian, who attacked him in a notorious letter.[1] Nevertheless, he remained prefect of Egypt for several years under Hadrian's successor, Antoninus Pius.[2]

Heliodorus married Julia Cassia Alexandra, princess of Judaea; she was the daughter of Gaius Julius Alexander Berenicianus and Cassia Lepida, a descendant of Cassius and Augustus. Their son was the usurper Avidius Cassius.

References

  1. ↑ G.W. Bowersock, Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), pp. 50f
  2. ↑ Bowersock, Greek Sophists, p. 52


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