Julius the Epic Poet (Ἰούλιος ὁ ἐποποιός) is a Greek author of the Roman Imperial period (1st–3rd century CE). He is known solely from a brief entry in the Byzantine encyclopedia Suda, which identifies him as an epic poet and notes he wrote a poem on Troy's capture alongside other, lost works [1]. No further biographical details survive.

His only extant work is the Iliou Halosis (Ἰλίου Ἅλωσις), or The Sack of Troy, a 691-line hexameter poem composed in the Homeric dialect [2].

Julius is significant as the author of a late Imperial epic, illustrating the enduring practice of Homeric imitation and the pedagogical repackaging of myth in Greek literary culture under Roman rule. His poem is a key artifact for understanding the transmission of the Trojan War cycle in this period.

Sources 1. Suda, entry Iota, 433: Julius (via Suda On Line, University of Kentucky): https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/iota/433 2. Perseus Digital Library: Text of the Iliou Halosis (Ἰλίου Ἅλωσις): https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0645%3Acard%3D1