Heia gens

The gens Heia was a

• Gnaeus Heius, one of the judges of the Judicium Albianum, the court that tried Oppianicus in 74 BC.[2]
• Heius, a
  Verres used his position to despoil Heius of his money and works of art.^[3]
• Gaius Heius, led a deputation of citizens from Messana who were brought to Rome in order to testify on behalf of Verres, during his trial in BC 70. Instead, Heius described for the prosecution how Verres had seized numerous artworks belonging to his family, including outstanding works of Greek sculpture.[4]
• Gaius Heius Primus, Flamen Augustalis at Olisipo in the time of Nero, provided the orchestra for the theatre of that city.^[5][6]
• Marcus Heius,
  Egypt
  between AD 42 and 45.

See also

• List of Roman gentes

References

Bibliography

• Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Verrem, Pro Cluentio.
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
• Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum.
• Frank Sear, Roman Theatres: an Architectural Study, Oxford University Press (2006).