What is "annia"

The gens Annia was a plebeian family of considerable antiquity at Rome. The first person of this name whom Livy mentions is the Latin praetor Lucius Annius of Setia, a Roman colony in 340 BC. By the time of the Second Punic War, the Annii were obtaining minor magistracies at Rome, and in 153 BC, Titus Annius Luscus attained the consulship. The gens remained prominent at Rome through the first century. The emperor Marcus Aurelius was descended from a family of this name.

Annia may refer to:

• Annia (gens), an ancient Roman clan
• any Roman woman of the gens ( see for list), including:
  • Paculla Annia, a priestess involved in the suppression of the Bacchanalia in 186 BC
  • Aspasia Annia Regilla (125-160 AD), wife of Herodes Atticus
  • Annia Galeria Faustina, better known as Faustina the Elder (ca. 100–140 AD), wife of Antoninus Pius
  • Annia Galeria Faustina, better known as Faustina the Younger (125/30–175 AD), wife of Marcus Aurelius
  • Annia Cornificia Faustina (ca. 122–152/58), sister of Marcus Aurelius
  • Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla, better known as Lucilla (148/50–182 AD), daughter of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina, sister of Commodus
  • Annia Aurelia Galeria Faustina (147–after 165), eldest child of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina
  • Annia Fundania Faustina (d. 192), daughter of Marcus Annius Libo and wife of Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio
  • Annia Cornificia Faustina Minor (160–212), daughter of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina, and sister of Lucilla and Commodus
  • Annia Faustina (165–218), daughter of Ummidia Cornificia Faustina
  • Annia Aurelia Faustina (c. 201–222 AD), briefly wife of Elagabalus, great-grandniece of Marcus Aurelius
• Via Annia, a Roman road in Cisalpine Gaul named for a member of the gens Annia
• a first name used by modern-era women, including:
  • Annia Hatch (born 1978), Cuban-American gymnast
  • Annia Rivera (born 1991), Cuban diver