Calocaerus

Calocaerus ( Greek Καλόκαιρος Kalokairos ; † 334 in Tarsos ) was a late ancient Roman usurper .

Calocaerus officiated as magister pecoris camelorum ("Lord of the cattle and the camels") of the Roman Emperor Constantine in Cyprus . In 333/34 he rose against Constantine and proclaimed himself emperor. The censor Flavius Dalmatius , a half-brother of Constantine, put down the rebellion of Calocaerus and brought him and his supporters to justice in Tarsos in Cilicia . Calocaerus was finally crucified in 334 , but he never posed a serious threat to the reign of Constantine.

literature

Bruno Bleckmann : Calocaerus. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 940 ( doi : 10.1163 / 1574-9347_dnp_e224910 ).
Arnold Hugh Martin Jones , John Robert Martindale, John Morris : Calocaerus. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1971, ISBN 0-521-07233-6 , p. 177.
Dietmar Kienast , Werner Eck , Matthäus Heil : Roman imperial table. Basic features of a Roman imperial chronology . 6th, completely revised and updated edition. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-534-26724-8 , pp. 295 .
Wilhelm Kroll : Kalokairos . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 2, Stuttgart 1919, Sp. 1757.
Maciej Salamon: Calocaerus - 'magister pecoris camelorum' e l'indole della sua rivolta in Cipro nel 334 . In: Studi in onore di Arnaldo Biscardi . tape 5 . Cisalpino-La Goliardica, Milan 1984, ISBN 88-205-0497-9 , p. 79-85 .

Web links

Michael DiMaio, Jr .: Short biography (English) at De Imperatoribus Romanis (with references).

Remarks

↑ Bruno Bleckmann suggests "leading shepherd's slave" as a corresponding translation. Cf. Bruno Bleckmann: Calocaerus. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 940. Alexander Demandt suspects the title to be a "supervisor of the state transport system [...] in a quasi-military position". See Alexander Demandt: Magister militum. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary volume XII, Stuttgart 1970, Sp. 553-790, here: 556.
↑ Aurelius Victor , Liber de Caesaribus 41:11.
↑ Anonymous Valesianus 6.35 ; Orosius 7.30. On the method of execution Aurelius Victor, Liber de Caesaribus 41.12. On the year of Jerome's death , Chronicle 334.

personal data
SURNAME	Calocaerus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kalokairos; Καλόκαιρος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman counter-emperor in Cyprus at the time of Constantine the Great
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd century or 4th century
DATE OF DEATH	334
Place of death	tarsus

[1] Bruno Bleckmann suggests "leading shepherd's slave" as a corresponding translation. Cf. Bruno Bleckmann: Calocaerus. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 940. Alexander Demandt suspects the title to be a "supervisor of the state transport system [...] in a quasi-military position". See Alexander Demandt: Magister militum. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary volume XII, Stuttgart 1970, Sp. 553-790, here: 556.

[2] Aurelius Victor , Liber de Caesaribus 41:11.

[3] Anonymous Valesianus 6.35 ; Orosius 7.30. On the method of execution Aurelius Victor, Liber de Caesaribus 41.12. On the year of Jerome's death , Chronicle 334.