In the spring of A.D. 260, the Roman Emperor Valerian was taken prisoner by the Persian King of Kings. This humiliating capture, unprecedented in the long annals of Rome, ended Valerian s reign, leaving his overmatched son Gallienus on the throne. By then, Julia Cornelia Salonina had been wife to Gallienus for almost a decade, bearing him three sons: the princes Valerian II, Saloninus, and Marinianus. The middle son, Saloninus, was executed in 260 in Gaul during the insurrection that led to the creation of the Gallic Empire.
In the spring of A.D. 260, the Roman Emperor Valerian was taken prisoner by the Persian King of Kings. This humiliating capture, unprecedented in the long annals of Rome, ended Valerian s reign,...
While this hard-nosed emperor believed sincerely that he was a demigod come down to earth, Gallienus still managed to implement important reforms in the military. His decision to bar senators from...
In the year 268, Caesar Marcus Aurelius Claudius Augustus, known as Claudius II Gothicus, assumed the Roman throne. Desperate for fresh army recruits, he decreed that young men remain unmarried,...
The Roman Age of Chaos began in 235 CE, when the Emperor Alexander Severus was set upon by his own troops, who replaced him with Maximinus I Max Thrax, as he is sometimes known. By the time Gordian...
Helena was the consort to Constantius Chlorus and the mother of Constantine the Great. By 324, Constantine alone ruled the length and breadth of the Empire. Two years later, he dispatched Helena to...
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