The gens Mindia was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens appear in history beginning in the middle of the first century BC, and achieved senatorial rank in imperial times. Mindia Matidia was a grandniece of the emperor Trajan.
Members
Marcus Mindius Marcellus, a friend of Caesar, became an officer under Octavian during the Sicilian War.Syme, Approaching the Roman Revolution, p. 210. Lucius Mindius Balbus, a Roman senator, was governor of Bithynia and Pontus at some point between AD 43 and 47. Lucius Mindius Pollio, another senator, was governor of Bithynia and Pontus some time after AD 42. Mindia Potentilla, high priestess of Artemis in Ephesus during the reign of Trajan.Van Tilborg, Reading John in Ephesus, p. 157. Mindia Menandra, a priestess of Artemis in Ephesus during the reign of Trajan. Lucius Mindius, the husband of Salonia Matidia, and father of Mindia Matidia. Mindia L. f. Matidia, a grandniece of Trajan, and sister-in-law of Hadrian. Mindia Sabina, the foster-daughter of Fortunata, buried at Ostia in Latium, aged seven years, eight months, and one day..Epigrafia ostiense dopo il CIL, p. 282 (Chapter 10 pdf).
See also List of Roman gentes Minidia gens
References
Bibliography
René Cagnat et alii, L'Année épigraphique (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated AE), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
Ronald Syme, Approaching The Roman Revolution: Papers on Republican History, Federico Santangelo, ed., Oxford University Press (2016). Epigrafia ostiense dopo il CIL: 2000 iscrizioni funerarie (Ostian Epigraphy after the CIL: 2000 Funerary Inscriptions), Maria Letizia Caldelli, Mireille Cébeillac-Gervasoni, Nicolas Laubry, Ilaria Manzini, Raffaella Marchesini, Filippo Marini Recchia, and Fausto Zevi, eds., Antichistica (2018)