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Basilina
Basilina (died 332) was the wife of Julius Constantius and the mother of Roman Emperor Julian, who in her honour gave the name "Basilinopolis" to a city in Bithynia (modern Pazarköy near Gemlik, in Turkey).
Biography.
Basilina was born of Greek origin, the daughter of Caeionius Iulianus Camenius or, more likely, of Julius Julianus, she was educated by Mardonius, a eunuch who grew up in the house of her father. She became the second wife of Julius Constantius, whom
was the father of Basilina, wife of Constantine's half brother Julius Constantius and mother of Emperor Julian, and of the mother of Procopius; he was probably related to Eusebius of Nicomedia. Julianus was the master of the Gothic philosopher slave Mardonius, who was the teacher of both Basilina and Julian.
Bibliography.
- Timothy David Barnes, "Constantine and Eusebius", Harvard University Press, 1981, , pp. 70, 214.
- Robert Browning, "The Emperor Julian", University of California Press