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Julia
Only daughter of Augustus. She briefly wed Marcellus (25-23 BC), then Agrippa (21), Augustus' chief lieutenant. Their two eldest sons became Augustus' heirs (17). When Agrippa died (12), Augustus' wife persuaded him to favor her sons, Tiberius and Drusus, as heirs. Augustus forced Tiberius to divorce his wife and marry Julia (11). The unhappy Julia became promiscuous, and Tiberius went into self-imposed exile. When Augustus discovered Julia's behavior, he banished her to an island off Campania (2 BC), then to Rhegium. On becoming emperor, Tiberius withheld her allowance, and she starved to death.


Julian
Last pagan Roman emperor (361-63). The nephew of Constantine I, he was raised a Christian but converted to mystical paganism. As caesar (subemperor) in the west, he restored the Rhine frontier and was proclaimed augustus (senior emperor) by his armies. Though Constantius II initially objected to Julian as his successor, he accepted him on his deathbed. At Constantinople, Julian proclaimed freedom of worship for pagans and Christians in 361; he nevertheless promoted paganism over Christianity, against which he committed acts of violence and persecution. He introduced austerity to government, reducing imperial staff and overhauling imperial finances. To reassert Roman power in the east he attacked Persia; the effort failed, and he was killed in a retreat near Baghdad.


Jupiter
Fifth planet from the sun, the largest nonstellar object in the solar system. It has 318 times the mass and over 1,400 times the volume of earth. Its enormous mass gives it over 2.5 times the gravity of earth at the top of its atmosphere, and exerts strong effects on other members of the solar system. It is responsible for the Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt and changes in the motions of comets; it may act as a "sentinel," pulling in bodies that might otherwise collide with other planets. Jupiter has at least 16 moons and a diffuse ring system less than 0.6 mi (1 km) thick, discovered in 1979 by the Voyager spacecraft. The planet is a gas giant, composed mainly of hydrogen and helium in proportions near those of the sun, which it orbits every 12 years at an average distance of 484 million mi (778 million km). Its rapid rotation (9 hours, 55.5 minutes) acts on electric currents to give it the largest magnetic field of any of the planets and causes intense storms, incl. one that has lasted hundreds of years (the Great Red Spot). Little is known of its interior, but it is presumed to have a solid core. Its central temperature is estimated to be 45,000\u00b0 F (25,000\u00b0 C); it radiates more heat than it receives from the sun, probably largely heat left over from its formation.

Chief god of ancient Rome and Italy. Like his Greek counterpart, Zeus, he was worshiped as a sky god. With Juno and Minerva he was a member of the triad of deities traditionally believed to have been introduced into Rome by the Etruscans. ...

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