Arellia gens
Introduction 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.
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. * 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. * Quintus Arellius Fuscus, either the father or the son, bore the praenomen ''Quintus'', but it is not certain which.
See also * List of Roman gentes
References
Bibliography * Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder), ''Controversiae'' (Controversies), ''Suasoriae'' (Rhetorical Exercises). * Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), ''Historia Naturalis'' (Natural History). * ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).