Overview
The gens Rancia was an obscure plebeian family of ancient Rome. No members of this gens are mentioned by Roman writers, but several are known from inscriptions.
Members
* Quintus Rancius Q. l., a freedman buried at Rome, in a tomb dating from the latter half of the first century BC. * Rancia Antiochis, buried at Rome, in a tomb built by her husband, Titus Pomponius Diodorus, dating from the latter half of the first century. * Quintus Rancius Q. l. Dorotheus, a freedman named in an Augustan-era inscription from Rome. * Quintus Rancius Epaphroditus, buried at Rome, together with his wife, Rancia Thallusa, in a tomb dating from the first half of the second century. * Rancia Harmonia, dedicated a tomb at Rome for her husband, Marcus Alphius Romanus. * Rancia Thallusa, buried at Rome, together with her husband, Quintus Rancius Epaphroditus.
See also
* List of Roman gentes
Bibliography
* René Cagnat et alii, L'Année épigraphique (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated AE), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present). * Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).