Quintus Fabius Clodius Agrippianus Celsinus (c. 210 - after 249) was proconsul of Caria in 249. He was the son of Clodius Celsinus (born c. 185) and his wife Fabia Fuscinella (born c. 190), paternal grandson of Marcus Clodius Macrinus Hermogenianus (born c. 150), and great-grandson of Marcus Clodius Macrinius Vindex Hermogenianus (born c. 125), a proconsul of Africa c. 200. His wife was Laberia Pompeiana (born c. 225). His maternal grandparents were Quintus Fabius (born c. 165) and wife Fuscinella (born c. 165), daughter of Publius Seius Fuscianus (born c. 120), consul in 151, praefectus urbi from 187 to 189 and suffect consul in 188.
A proconsul was an official of ancient Rome who acted on behalf of a consul. A proconsul was typically a former consul. The term is also used in recent history for officials with delegated authority.
Caria was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia (Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionian and Dorian Greeks colonized the west of it and joined the Carian population in forming Greek-dominated states there. The inhabitants of Caria, known as Carians, had arrived there before the Ionian and Dorian Greeks. They were described by Herodotus as being of Minoan Greek descent, while the Carians themselves maintained that they were Anatolian mainlanders intensely engaged in seafaring and were akin to the Mysians and the Lydians. The Carians did speak an Anatolian language, known as Carian, which does not necessarily reflect their geographic origin, as Anatolian once may have been widespread. Also closely associated with the Carians were the Leleges, which could be an earlier name for Carians or for a people who had preceded them in the region and continued to exist as part of their society in a reputedly second-class status.
Africa Proconsularis was a Roman province on the northwest African coast that was established in 146 BC following the defeat of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisia, the northeast of Algeria, and the coast of western Libya along the Gulf of Sirte. The territory was originally inhabited by Berber people, known in Latin as Mauri indigenous to all of North Africa west of Egypt; in the 9th century BC, Phoenicians built settlements along the Mediterranean Sea to facilitate shipping, of which Carthage rose to dominance in the 8th century until its conquest by the Roman Republic.
Clodius Agrippianus Celsinus was the father of
- Clodius Celsinus (born c. 245), whose son was
- Clodius Celsinus (born c. 280) and father of
- Clodius Celsinus Adelphius, praefectus urbi in 351.
- Clodius Celsinus (born c. 280) and father of
Clodius Celsinus Adelphius or Adelfius was a politician of the Roman Empire.
These Clodii Celsini continued to practice the traditional religions of antiquity and remained unconverted in the face of Christian hegemony through at least the 4th century until Clodius Celsinus Adelphius.
Religious conversion is the adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others. Thus "religious conversion" would describe the abandoning of adherence to one denomination and affiliating with another. This might be from one to another denomination within the same religion, for example, from Baptist to Catholic Christianity or from Shi’a to Sunni Islam. In some cases, religious conversion "marks a transformation of religious identity and is symbolized by special rituals".
Religion in the Greco-Roman world at the time of the Constantinian shift mostly comprised three main currents:
