Gordian II
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Gordian II was briefly Roman emperor in AD 238 with his father Gordian I during the Year of the Six Emperors. Seeking to overthrow Maximinus Thrax, he died in battle outside Carthage. Since he died be
Sestertius featuring Gordian II. The inscription reads imp caes m ant gordianvs afr avg.
Historia Augusta
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The Historia Augusta is a late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman emperors, their junior colleagues, designated heirs and usurpers from 117 to 284. Supposedly modeled on t
Page from an early-9th-century manuscript of the Historia Augusta (end of the life of Antoninus Pius and beginning of the life of Marcus Aurelius)
Hermann Dessau, whose groundbreaking work on the Historia Augusta led to its critical re-evaluation in the 20th century
Cicero, one of the authors whose works the Historia Augusta references obliquely.
Trebellianus, one of the fictitious tyrants included in the Historia Augusta, drawn by Guillaume Rouillé's engraver in Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum (1553)