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Epictetus in Wikipedia

Epictetus (Greek: Ἐπίκτητος; AD 55–AD 135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until banishment when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece where he lived the rest of his life. His teachings were noted down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Dis...

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Galerius in Wikipedia

Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus (c. 260 - April or May 311), commonly known as Galerius, was Roman Emperor from 305 to 311. During his reign he campaigned, aided by Diocletian, against the Sassanid Empire, sacking their capital Ctesiphon in 299. Early life Galerius was born on a small farm estate, on the site where he later built his pala...

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Honorius in Wikipedia

Flavius Honorius (9 September 384 – 15 August 423), commonly known as Honorius, was Western Roman Emperor from 395 to 423. He was the youngest son of Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of the eastern emperor Arcadius. Even by the standards of the rapidly declining Western Empire, Honorius' reign was precarious and chao...

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Galerius Maximiānus in Harpers Dictionary

Galerius Maximiānus, usually called Galerius, Roman emperor, A.D. 305-311. He was first made Caesar by Diocletian, whose daughter he had married; and upon the abdication of Diocletian and Maximianus (305 A.D.), he became Augustus or emperor. He died in 311, of the disgusting disease known in modern times by the name of morbus pediculosus. He w...

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Gordiānus in Harpers Dictionary

Marcus Antonīnus Africānus. A Roman, born during the reign of the first Antonine, of one of the most illustrious and wealthy families of Rome, and who made himself very popular during his quaestorship by his munificence, and the large sums which he spent in providing games and other amusements for the people. He also cultivated literature, and...

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Honorius Flavius in Harpers Dictionary

A Roman emperor of the West, A.D. 395-423, the second son of Theodosius the Great. During his minority the able Stilicho was regent, but in 408 was charged with treason and put to death. In the reign of Honorius, Alaric (q. v.) took and plundered Rome (410 A.D.), while the emperor led a life of ease at Ravenna....

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Gordianus in Wikipedia

Gordian I - Marcus Antonius Gordianus Sempronianus Romanus Africanus (c. 159 – 12 April 238), commonly known as Gordian I, was Roman Emperor for one month with his son Gordian II in 238, the Year of the Six Emperors. Early life - Little is known on the early life and family background of Gordian. There is no reliable evidence on his family origi...

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Epictētus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἐπίκτητος). An eminent Stoic philosopher, born in a servile condition at Hierapolis in Phrygia, about A.D. 50. The names of his parents are unknown; neither do we know how he came to be brought to Rome. But in that city he was for some time a slave to Epaphroditus, a freedman of Nero, who had been one of his body-guard. An anecdote related by...

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Eutropius in Wikipedia

Flavius Eutropius was an Ancient Roman Pagan historian who flourished in the latter half of the 4th century. He held the office of secretary (magister memoriae) at Constantinople, accompanied the Emperor Julian (361–363) on his expedition against the Persians (363), and was alive during the reign of Valens (364–378), to whom he dedicates his ...

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Galla Placidia in Wikipedia

Aelia Galla Placidia (392 – November 27, 450), daughter of the Roman Emperor Theodosius I, was the consort of Ataulf king of the Goths and after his death the Empress consort of Constantius III, Western Roman Emperor. Family - Placidia was the daughter of Roman Emperor Theodosius I and his second wife Galla.[1] Her older brother Gratian died y...

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