scullard 41 Flashcards
who supplanted Severus alexander
238 maximinus thrax
rank of maximinus
equestrian
wurttemburg
maximinus beats germans
gordian the 1st proclaimed
238 by senate and african landowners he is proconsul of africa and 80
gordian the second
238 proclaimed by dad
end of gordians
238 in battle with the governor of numidia
senate picks after gordians
pupienus and balbinus- 238
death of maximinus thrax
battle of aquilonia- 238
son of thrax
maximus
death of pupienus and balbius
praetorians in 238
successors of p&b
gordian 3–13– appointed by praetorians
gordian 3 pp
timistheus- app in 241
gordian 3 conquests
242- w/ timistheus aginst shapur 1 son of ardashir
death of timistheus
desease in 243
2nd pp of gardian 3
iulius phillipus(phillip the arab)
end of gordian 3
244 when phil beats up
Pta ascendancy
244
End of pta
249- supplanted by Messius Decius(traianus) at Verona
PTA’s son
P the second
Philipopolis
Taken by goths under Decius
End of Decius
Killed in 251 by the gothic king cniva at abrittus in the Dobruja( he’s notably Pannonian)
Rise of trebonius gallus
Recognized by senate after he secures peace with the goths that killed Decius in 251( he’s notably moesian)
Son of gallus
Volusianus - Augustus
Rise of Aemilius Aemilianus
Moorish successor to trebonius’ moesia command starts civil war against the emperor in 253
End of aemilius aemilianus
Killed by troops after beating trebonius
End of trebonius
Killed by aemilianus at interamna
Last Republican emporer
Valerian(253-260)
Start of the franks
Cherusci + chatti invade north in 256
Start of saxons and jutes in brittan
250s
Valerian’s plauge
Reached Italy in 262 5000 dead a day in rome
Valerian proclaimed in?
Raetia
Valerian son
Gallienus
Ingenuus
Pretender to the throne beaten by gallienus in mursa
Regilianus
2nd pretender put down by gallienus
Gallienus son
Salonius
Latinus postumus
Rebelled against gallienus after killing his son,
Macranus
Officer under valerian who rebelled after the valerian’s capture proclaiming his sons Marcia us and quietus emporers
30 tyrants
Only 9 real ones colloquial name for the pretenders under gallienus
The borani
Sarmatian people captured Bosporus in the east
Chosroes
Arminian king assasinated by shapur
Barbalissos
Shapur beats Romans
odaenathus
palmyran nobleman who disslikes shapur
defeat of macrinus
by aureolus general of gallienus in greece allong with macrianus
end of quietus and ballista
taken down by oedenathus after he is given command of roman forces in the area
ballista
praetorian of quietus
end of oedinathus
captures the east back for rome, declared emporer and then assassinated by palmyrans
vaballathus
son of odenathus king of palmyra, puppet of zenobia
postumius stabalizes in gaul
origially coined the term retitutor orbis, galliarum, made a mock of most roman stuff
rebels postumius
put down th rebels laelianus and moguntiacum,
end postumius
then asssasinated, then succeded by M. Marius then PIavonius Victorinus
heruli
tribethat took athens under gallienus after beating the general dexippus
defeat of the heruli
galienus beats them on the nessus
Aclius Aureolus vs gallienus
the former is left in charge in the west, rebells and marches on rome but is headded off by gallienus at milan
death of gallienus
assasinated by illyrian officers notably, claudius gothicus and aurelian in 268
antoinine baroque style
started under gallienus
sucessor of gallienus
claudius gothicus
claudius gothicus at lake garda
beats another alomanic invasion
goths vs claudius gothicus in 269
crushing utter and complete massacre of the goths in the style of ceaser of scipio
augustodunum vs victorinus
they rebel he crushes them then he is assasinated and succeded by tetricus
zenobia under claudius gothicus
expanded massively
end of gothicus
270- disease
bother of gothicus
quintillius-0 assasinated by his own supporters in 270
1st act of aurelian
drive the vandals out of pannonia
aurelian 2nd act
evacuate dacia
aurelian vs alamanni and juthungi
he wins in 271
probus
aurelian’s general
paul of samosata
heritic bishob who was supported by zenobia, negotiated with aurelian
emesa
zenobia’s forces under zabdas beaten by aurelian
aurelian’s seige of palmyra
272- captures zenobia and first conqueres the city but then after a rebellion raises the city in 273
firmus
alexandrian mercheant who rebelled leading to aurelian destroynh the walls
capture of tetricus
ends the imperium galliarum- he defects from his troops at chalonsin 273
tetricus and zenobia after they were restitutored
given jobs and money
death of aurelian
killed by his own officers in 275
felicissimus
coinmaster who rebells on the caelian hill- 7000 soldiers die
manu ad ferrum
hand on hilt- aurelian
aurelian’s successor
the unwilling tetricus- a senator- in 275 who beat some alans then died
tetricus’s successor
his half brother florianus who died in like a week 275
florianus’ successor
275- probus- aurelian’s leiutenant
early probus reign(275-279)
secured borders particularly against bahram 2
bonosus
declared himself emporer against probus in 280
end of carus
struck by lightning
end of probus
killed by supporters of carus, his successor in 282
carus’ sons
numerian and carinus - ceasers
praetorian prefect of numerian
aper
dicletion unites the empire
in 285 after beating carinus at margus
