Talk:Gaius Julius Alexion

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I had to thoroughly research and type up the article from the beginning to the end. When researching and putting together a Wikipedia article or any article, it is very important to add in facts or comments that are correct and are from reliable sources. This article had no citations; no sources and much of the article had false information.

The reason why in the first place I never put together an original article for Alexio because there wasn’t enough reliable information. When I first did the Royal Family of Emesa article going back a number of years, I was just lucky to find enough reliable information to put it together. Looking through the original article there are some facts I want to correct:

- The identity of the wife of Alexio is unknown. It stated in the article that Alexio’s wife was a daughter of the Emperor Claudius, although it stated there is a little record of this and seems improbable. Claudius had two daughters: Claudia Antonia from his second marriage to Aelia Paetina and Claudia Octavia from third marriage to Valeria Messalina. Both daughters were murdered at the hands of their stepbrother and cousin Nero. Claudius’ first wife had a daughter from her affair with Claudius’ freedman Boter, however after her birth; she was left on a mountainside left to die. Check Suetonius, Claudius for this information, if anyone is interested. Claudius’ children had no descendants.

- It stated that Alexio had a daughter and only child called Mammaea who later married King of Palmyra, Malchus. I couldn’t find any reliable sources that said this. Mammaea is misspelt for Mamaea. For the only woman that I found with this name was Julia Avita Mamaea, a Syrian woman who lived in the 2nd century and 3rd century; niece of the Roman Empress Julia Domna, daughter of Julia Maesa and mother of the Roman Emperor Alexander Severus of the Severan Dynasty. When I looked up the name Malchus, I found an ancient Jordanian King of this name, who was a contemporary to the rule of Cleopatra VII in the 1st century BC, not the 1st century.

I had also found another Syrian woman called Mamaea who was a princess from the Royal Family in Emesa in the 1st century, who was a sister to Sohaemus of Emesa. She married Polemon II of Pontus. When I research and redid Polemon II of Pontus, I never found a Mamaea as a wife of Polemon II. The wife of Polemon II was the Herodian Princess Berenice. They married in 48; their union was brief and they had no children.

One thing I had learnt from doing articles for Wikipedia, never trust the various on-line genealogies tables. They provide a lot of inaccurate and misleading information about genealogy in particular from antiquity. I rather find my information from primary sources, reference books and other reliable sources (including secondary ones). There are times when referencing it is a good idea to cross check and reference facts several times for clarity as sometimes some secondary references are not always that reliable.

When putting together an article for Wikipedia, it’s very important to find information from reliable sources and cross reference them. If someone is going to do an article for Wikipedia, at least if you will not add in citations, list your sources (wherever they are) for charity and the readers can use them for sourcing, to check on facts or later referencing.

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