Marcus Atius

Marcus Atius (also: Attius ) Balbus (* end of the 2nd century BC in Aricia ) was a Roman senator of the late Republic and grandfather of the Emperor Augustus.

He came from a plebeian family of Aricia (modern Ariccia), who had allegedly already produced several senators, and his mother's side related to Pompey.

In a not precisely known year, no later than 60 BC, Balbus held the praetorship. Maybe he was governor of Sardinia. 59 BC, he was, together with Pompey to a commission to distribute lands in Campania among the people due to the agricultural laws of the consul Gaius Julius Caesar. About Balbus ' further life nothing is known.

Balbus was married to Julia, one of the two sisters of Caesar, and had with her two daughters, the elder Atia, with Gaius Octavius ​​( later Augustus of this marriage came from ) and after his death with Lucius Marcius Philippus (consul 56 BC ) was married, and the younger Atia married Lucius Marcius Philippus ( Suffektkonsul 38 BC ), son of the second husband of her sister from a previous marriage.