page_title: Junia gens
section_title: Junii Silani
hierarchical_section_title: Junia gens / Members / Junii Silani
caption_attribution_description: English: D. Junius L.f. Silanus 91 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.97 g, 10h). Rome mint. Diademed head of Salus right within torque / Victory driving biga right. Crawford 337/2c; Sydenham 645b; Junia 18. VF, toned.
context_page_description: The gens Junia was one of the most celebrated families of ancient Rome. The gens may originally have been patrician, and was already prominent in the last days of the Roman monarchy. Lucius Junius Brutus was the nephew of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the seventh and last King of Rome, and on the expulsion of Tarquin in 509 BC, he became one of the first consuls of the Roman Republic.
  Over the next several centuries, the Junii produced a number of very eminent men, such as Gaius Junius Bubulcus Brutus, three times consul and twice dictator during the period of the Samnite Wars, as well as Marcus and Decimus Junius Brutus, among the leaders of the conspiracy against Caesar. Although the Junii Bruti disappeared at the end of the Republic, another family, the Junii Silani, remained prominent under the early Empire.
context_section_description: Marcus Junius Silanus, prefect in Naples in 216 BC; praetor, then propraetor, in Etruria from 212 to 211, and propraetor in Spain between 210 and 206.
  Marcus Junius M. f. Silanus, prefect of the allies, fell in battle against the Boii in 196 BC.
  Decimus Junius M. f. M. n. Silanus, a senator commissioned by the senate circa 146 BC to translate the agricultural writings of Mago into Latin.
  Marcus Junius D. f. M. n. Silanus, triumvir monetalis in 145 BC.  He was probably the tribune of the plebs who carried a lex Junia de repetundis of uncertain date.
  Decimus Junius D. f. M. n. Silanus Manlianus, the natural son of Titus Manlius Torquatus (consul in 165 BC), was adopted by Decimus Junius Silanus.  He was praetor in 141, and obtained Macedonia as his province, where he received bribes.  His natural father organised a private court in his house to judge him; banished from his father's house, Manlianus committed suicide soon after.
  Marcus Junius M. f. D. n. Silanus, triumvir monetalis in 116 or 115 BC, then praetor in Asia circa 102.
  Marcus Junius D. f. D. n. Silanus, praetor in 113 or 112 BC, and consul in 109.  He was defeated by the Cimbri while consul or proconsul in Gaul in 109 or 108.
  Decimus Junius L. f. D. n. Silanus, triumvir monetalis in 91 BC.
  Junia, the wife of Gaius Claudius Marcellus, and mother of Gaius Claudius Marcellus, consul in 50 BC.
  Marcus Junius D. f. D. n. Silanus, praetor in 77, and proconsul in Asia in 76.
  Decimus Junius M. f. Silanus, aedile by 70 BC, praetor circa 67, and consul in 62.  He was the stepfather of Marcus Junius Brutus, the tyrannicide.
  Marcus Junius Silanus, legate in 53 BC under Caesar in Gaul.
  Marcus Junius M. f. D. n. Silanus, legate under Lepidus and Antonius in 43 BC, proquaestor under Antonius from 34 to 33 BC, and consul in 25.  His coins, minted in 33, indicate that he was also an augur.
  Lucius Junius M. f. D. n. Silanus, perhaps an augur before 31 BC, was praetor circa 24, and an unsuccessful candidate for the consulship in 21.
  Junia M. f. D. n., married Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, the triumvir.
  Junia M. f. D. n. Tertia, married Gaius Cassius Longinus, the tyrannicide.
  Gaius Junius C. f. Silanus, consul in 19 BC.
  Marcus Junius M. f. M. n. Silanus, son of the Marcus Junius Silanus who was consul in 25 BC, and the father of Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus, consul in AD 19.
  Gaius Junius M. f. (D. n.) Silanus, the father of Gaius Junius Silanus, consul in AD 10, and Marcus Junius Silanus, consul in AD 15.
  Gaius Junius C. f. M. n. Silanus, consul in AD 10, and Flamen Martialis.
  Marcus Junius C. f. M. n. Silanus, consul suffectus in AD 15.
  Decimus Junius C. f. M. n. Silanus, exiled in AD 8 for his affair with Julia, the granddaughter of Augustus.
  Junia C. f. M. n. Torquata, a Vestal Virgin, interceded on behalf of her brother, Gaius Junius Silanus, the consul of AD 10, after he was condemned for treason in AD 22.
  Marcus Junius M. f. M. n. Silanus Torquatus, consul in AD 19.
  Junia M. f. M. n. Claudilla, wife of the emperor Caligula.
  Junia Lepida Silana, the wife of Gaius Silius.
  Appius Junius Silanus, consul in AD 28, put to death by the emperor Claudius.
  Marcus Junius M. f. M. n. Silanus Torquatus, consul in AD 46, and later poisoned by Agrippina.
  Lucius Junius M. f. M. n. Silanus Torquatus, praetor in AD 48.
  Decimus Junius M. f. M. n. Silanus Torquatus, consul in AD 53.
  Junia M. f. M. n. Calvina, married Lucius Vitellius.
  Junia M. f. M. n. Lepida, married Gaius Cassius Longinus, consul suffectus in AD 30.
  Lucius Junius M. f. M. n. Torquatus Silanus, put to death by the emperor Nero in AD 65.
  Junius Silanus, perhaps consul suffectus in AD 189; his nomen is not complete in surviving inscriptions, and may instead be Julius.
  Junius Silanus, consul suffectus in AD 237, read before the senate the letter of Gordian I, in which he accepted the empire.  He should perhaps be Julius Silanus, the name by which he is called in the Historia Augusta.
caption: Denarius of Decimus Junius Silanus, 91 BC.  The obverse depicts the head of Salus within a torque, alluding to the temple of Salus built by Gaius Junius Bubulcus Brutus in 307 BC.  On the reverse, Victoria drives a biga.
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