According to legend, the Julii were one of the noble houses that came to
Rome from
Alba Longa when that city was destroyed by
Tullus Hostilius, the third
king of Rome, but it was not until the twenty-first year of the
Republic that a member of that family was elected consul. Iullus'
filiation is not found in the surviving fragments of the
Fasti Capitolini. If he was the father of the same
Gaius Julius Iullus who was consul in 482 BC, then his father's name was
Lucius. This is the interpretation given in the
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, which generally follows
Wilhelm Drumann's scholarship on the Julii. If Iullus was the father of Gaius, the consul of 482, then he was also the father of
Vopiscus Julius Iullus, consul in 473, who shares the same filiation and must have been the younger Gaius' brother. ==References==