Editing Antoninus Pius (section)

===Childhood and family===
Antoninus Pius was born Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Antoninus in 86, near [[Lanuvium]] (modern-day [[Lanuvio]]) in [[Roman Italy|Italy]] to [[Titus Aurelius Fulvus (father of Antoninus Pius)|Titus Aurelius Fulvus]], [[Roman consul|consul]] in 89, and wife [[Arria Fadilla]].<ref>Kienast 1990: 134.</ref>{{sfn|Bowman|2000|p=150}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Harvey|first=Paul B.|title=Religion in republican Italy|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2006|page=134}}</ref> The Aurelii Fulvi were an [[Aurelia (gens)|Aurelian]] family settled in [[Nemausus]] (modern [[Nîmes]]).{{sfn|Bury|1893|p=523}} Titus Aurelius Fulvus was the son of a senator of the same name, who, as legate of [[Legio III Gallica]], had supported [[Vespasian]] in his bid to the Imperial office and been rewarded with a suffect consulship, plus an ordinary one under [[Domitian]] in 85. The Aurelii Fulvi were therefore a relatively new senatorial family from [[Gallia Narbonensis]] whose rise to prominence was supported by the [[Flavian dynasty|Flavians]].<ref>{{cite thesis|first=Hugo Thomas Dupuis|last=Whitfield|title=The rise of Nemausus from Augustus to Antoninus Pius: a prosopographical study of Nemausian senators and equestrians|type=MA|publisher=Queen's University|location=Ontario|year=2012|pages=49–57|url=http://qspace.library.queensu.ca/bitstream/1974/7181/1/Whitfield_Hugo_TD_201204_MA.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://qspace.library.queensu.ca/bitstream/1974/7181/1/Whitfield_Hugo_TD_201204_MA.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|access-date=24 January 2016}}</ref> The link between Antoninus's family and their home province explains the increasing importance of the post of [[proconsul]] of Gallia Narbonensis during the late second century.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Michel|last=Gayraud|title=Le proconsulat de Narbonnaise sous le Haut-Empire|journal=Revue des Études Anciennes|volume=72|year=1970|number=3–4|pages=344–363|doi=10.3406/rea.1970.3874|url=http://www.persee.fr/doc/rea_0035-2004_1970_num_72_3_3874|access-date=24 January 2016}}</ref>

Antoninus's father had no other children and died shortly after his 89 ordinary consulship. Antoninus was raised by his maternal grandfather [[Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus]],{{sfn|Bowman|2000|p=150}} reputed by contemporaries to be a man of integrity and culture and a friend of [[Pliny the Younger]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} The Arrii Antonini were an older senatorial family from Italy, very influential during [[Nerva]]'s reign. Arria Fadilla, Antoninus's mother, married afterwards [[Publius Julius Lupus]], suffect consul in 98; from that marriage came two daughters, Arria Lupula and Julia Fadilla.{{sfn|Birley|2000|p=242; ''Historia Augusta'', Antoninus Pius 1:6}}