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Lucius Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus
Lucius Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus was a Roman senator and aristocrat of the 3rd century. He served as ordinary consul in 231 with Titus Flavius Sallustius Paelignianus as his colleague. His full name, previously known as Claudius Pompeianus, was only known after the discovery of a military diploma. Although Pompeianus came from Antioch, he had deep Roman roots. His father was Lucius Aurelius Commodus Pompeianus, ordinary consul in 209. His grandfather was Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus, suffect consul in 162 and ordinary consul in 173, and his grandmother was the daughter of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, Lucilla Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla or Lucilla (7 March 148 or 150 – 182) was the second daughter of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman Empress Faustina the Younger. She was the wife of her father's co-ruler and adoptive brother Lucius Veru .... Allmer, Auguste & de Terrebasse, Alfred. Inscriptions antiques et du Moyen Age de Vienne en Dauphiné, Volume 3', p. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post- Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia, and was ruled by emperors. From the accession of Caesar Augustus as the first Roman emperor to the military anarchy of the 3rd century, it was a Principate with Italia as the metropole of its provinces and the city of Rome as its sole capital. The Empire was later ruled by multiple emperors who shared control over the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. The city of Rome remained the nominal capital of both parts until AD 476 when the imperial insignia were sent to Constantinople following the capture of the Western capital of Ravenna by the Germanic barbarians. The adoption of Christianity as the state church of the Roman Empire in AD 380 and the fall of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
