The gens Arellia was a
plebeian family at
Rome. Although of
equestrian rank, this
gens does not appear to have been particularly large or important, and is known primarily from three individuals.[1]
Members
Arellius, a talented painter at Rome in the latter part of the first century BC, who gained notoriety for depicted goddesses with the features of his own mistresses.[2]
Arellius Fuscus, a rhetorician in Greek and Latin at Rome, around the beginning of the first century. He was a tutor of
Ovid and
Fabianus, and a rival of
Marcus Porcius Latro. His son, who had the same name, was also a rhetorician.[3][4][5]
Quintus Arellius Fuscus, either the father or the son, bore the
praenomenQuintus, but it is not certain which.[5]
The gens Arellia was a
plebeian family at
Rome. Although of
equestrian rank, this
gens does not appear to have been particularly large or important, and is known primarily from three individuals.[1]
Members
Arellius, a talented painter at Rome in the latter part of the first century BC, who gained notoriety for depicted goddesses with the features of his own mistresses.[2]
Arellius Fuscus, a rhetorician in Greek and Latin at Rome, around the beginning of the first century. He was a tutor of
Ovid and
Fabianus, and a rival of
Marcus Porcius Latro. His son, who had the same name, was also a rhetorician.[3][4][5]
Quintus Arellius Fuscus, either the father or the son, bore the
praenomenQuintus, but it is not certain which.[5]