Valerian
Va-le'ri-an [
Lat. Vai.eria'nus, (Puhlius Licinius;)
Fr. Valerien, vS'la're^N'] succeeded vEmilianus as
Emperor of Rome in 253 A.D., and appointed his son
Gallienus his colleague. The empire was soon after
invaded by the Goths and other barbarous tribes, and
by Sapor, (Shapoor,) King of Persia, who defeated the
Romans near Kdessa in 260 and took Va...
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Publius Licinius Valerianus[1] (193/195/200 – 260 or 264), commonly known as Valerian or Valerian the
Elder, was Roman Emperor from 253 to 260. He was taken captive by Persian king Shapur I after the
Battle of Edessa, becoming the only emperor to do so and causing wide range instability across the
empire.
Life -
Origins and rise to power -
U...
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P. Licinius, a Roman emperor, A.D. 253-260. He was entrapped
into a conference by the Persians, taken prisoner (260 A.D.)
by Sapor, and passed the remainder of his life in captivity,
subjected to every insult which Oriental cruelty could devise.
His skin was stuffed after his death and hung in one of the
Persian temples for many years....
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