Aurelius Achilleus ( 297–298 AD) was a rebel against the Roman emperor

Diocletian Diocletian (; la, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, grc, Διοκλητιανός, Diokletianós; c. 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed ''Iovius'', was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Gaius Valerius Diocles ...

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in 297 AD. All literary sources name Achilleus as an imperial pretender and the leader of the rebellion, but numismatic and papyrological evidence attribute that role to

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instead. Egyptian papyri instead attest Achilleus as ''

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'' under Domitianus. He seems to have succeeded to leadership of the rebellion after Domitianus died in December 297. Achilleus was at length taken by Diocletian after a siege of eight months in

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, and put to death in 298 AD.

Aurelius Victor Sextus Aurelius Victor (c. 320 – c. 390) was a historian and politician of the Roman Empire. Victor was the author of a short history of imperial Rome, entitled ''De Caesaribus'' and covering the period from Augustus to Constantius II. The work w ...

''De Caesaribus'' 39

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