1. Marcus Aurelius (0121)

Roman Emperor

Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 who was called 'The Philospher King.' He is one of the most important Stoic philosopher and he wrote an important treatise on the subject...

2. Philip the Arab (1970)

Roman Emperor

Philip the Arab also known as Philip or Philippus Arabs was Roman Emperor from 244 to 249. He was born in present-day Syria to a Syrian father and went on...

3. Maximian (1970)

Roman Emperor

Maximian was Roman Emperor from 286 to 305. He was Caesar from 285 to 286 then Augustus from 286 to 305. He shared the latter title with his co-emperor and...

4. Caracalla (0188)

Roman Emperor

Caracalla was Roman emperor of Punic and Syrian descent from 198 to 217. The eldest son of Septimius Severus he reigned jointly with his father from 198 until Severus' death...

5. Pupienus (1970)

Roman Emperor

Pupienus also known as Pupienus Maximus was Roman Emperor with Balbinus for three months in 238 during the Year of the Six Emperors. The sources for this period are scant...

6. Constantine the Great (1970)

Roman Emperor

Constantine the Great also known as Constantine I or Saint Constantine was Roman Emperor from 306 to 337. Constantine was the son of Flavius Valerius Constantius a Roman army officer...

7. Claudius Gothicus (0213)

Roman Emperor

Claudius II commonly known as Claudius Gothicus was Roman Emperor from 268 to 270. During his reign he fought successfully against the Alamanni and scored a crushing victory against the...

8. Petronius Maximus (1970)

Roman Emperor

vius Petronius Maximus was Western Roman Emperor for two and a half months in 455. A wealthy senator and a prominent aristocrat he was instrumental in the murders of...

9. Elagabalus (0203)

Roman Emperor

Elagabalus also known as Heliogabalus was Roman Emperor from 218 to 222. A member of the Severan Dynasty he was Syrian the second son of Julia Soaemias and Sextus Varius...

10. Justinian I (0482)

Roman Emperor

Justinian I commonly known as Justinian the Great was a Byzantine emperor from 527 to 565.

11. Alexander Severus (0208)

Roman Emperor

Severus Alexander was Roman Emperor from 222 to 235. Alexander was the last emperor of the Severan dynasty.

12. Theodosius II (0401)

Roman Emperor

There was also a Theodosius II of Abkhazia. Theodosius II commonly surnamed Theodosius the Younger or Theodosius the Calligrapher was Roman Emperor from 408 to 450. He is mostly known...

13. Titus (1970)

Roman Emperor

Titus was Roman Emperor from 79 to 81. A member of the Flavian dynasty Titus succeeded his father Vespasian upon his death thus becoming the first Roman Emperor to come...

14. Gaius Julius Verus Maximus (1970)

Roman Emperor

Gaius Julius Verus Maximus also incorrectly called Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus or Maximinus the Younger was the son of the Roman Emperor Maximinus Thrax and his wife Caecilia Paulina. Maximinus...

15. Didius Julianus (1970)

Roman Emperor

Didius Julianus was Roman Emperor for nine weeks during the year 193. Julianus ascended the throne after buying it from the Praetorian Guard who had assassinated his predecessor Pertinax. This...

16. Diocletian (1970)

Roman Emperor

Diocletian was Roman emperor from 284 to 305. Born to a family of low status in the Roman province of Dalmatia Diocletian rose through the ranks of the military...

17. Domitian (1951)

Roman Emperor

Domitian was Roman emperor from 81 to 96. Domitian was the third and last emperor of the Flavian dynasty. Domitian's youth and early career were largely spent in the shadow...

18. Trajan (1953)

Roman Emperor

Trajan was Roman emperor from 98 AD until his death. Officially declared by the Senate as optimus princeps Trajan is remembered as a successful soldier-emperor who presided over the greatest...

19. Valens (1970)

Roman Emperor

Valens was the Eastern Roman Emperor from 364 to 378. He was given the eastern half of the empire by his brother Valentinian I after the latter's accession to the...

20. Valentinian I (1970)

Roman Emperor

Valentinian I also known as Valentinian the Great was Roman emperor from 364 to 375. Upon becoming emperor he made his brother Valens his co-emperor giving him rule of the...

21. Valentinian II (1970)

Roman Emperor

vius Valentinianus commonly known as Valentinian II was Roman Emperor from AD 375 to 392.

22. Septimius Severus (0146)

Roman Emperor

Septimius Severus also known as Severus was Roman Emperor from 193 to 211. Severus was born in Leptis Magna in the province of Africa. As a young man he advanced...

23. Herennius Etruscus (1970)

Roman Emperor

Herennius Etruscus was Roman emperor in 251 in a joint rule with his father Decius. Emperor Hostilian was his younger brother. Herennius was born in or near Sirmium in Pannonia...

24. Marcus Claudius Tacitus (1970)

Roman Emperor

Tacitus was Roman Emperor from 275 to 276. During his short reign he campaigned against the Goths and the Heruli for which he received the title Gothicus Maximus.

25. Jovian (emperor) (1970)

Roman Emperor

Jovian was Roman Emperor from 363 to 364. Upon the death of emperor Julian the Apostate during his campaign against the Sassanid Empire Jovian was hastily declared emperor by his...

26. Avitus (1970)

Roman Emperor

This article is about the Roman Emperor. For the other meanings of Avitus see Avitus Eparchius Avitus was Western Roman Emperor from 8 or 9 July 455 to 17 October...

27. Hadrian (1970)

Roman Emperor

Hadrian was Roman Emperor from 117 to 138. In Latin the full imperial title of Hadrian was also rendered as Tito Ael Hadriano just as it appears in ancient epigraphic...