Ulpian
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Ulpian was a Roman jurist, born in Tyre in Roman Syria. He moved to Rome and rose to become considered one of the great legal authorities of his time. He was one of the five jurists upon whom decision
19th-century statue of Ulpian in the neoclassical Palais de Justice in Brussels, Belgium
Severus Alexander
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Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, also known as Alexander Severus, was Roman emperor from 222 until 235. He was the last emperor from the Severan dynasty and, at the age of 13, became the youngest so
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…Caracalla he was master of the requests (magister libellorum). Elagabalus (also known as Heliogabalus) banished him from Rome, but on the accession of Severus Alexander (222) he was reinstated, and finally became the emperor's chief adviser and Praefectus Praetorio. During the Severan dynasty, the position of praetorian…
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Bust of young Severus Alexander, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
Bust of Severus Alexander, Musée Saint-Raymond, Toulouse
The Portland Vase