Celsus (counter-emperor)
Celsus was one of the so-called thirty tyrants in the Historia Augusta and supposedly anti-emperor to Gallienus . Like many other usurpers in the time of the imperial crisis of the 3rd century , it is not considered historical.
The Augustan History According to the former lived military tribune Celsus on his estate in the province of Africa , as it extends from Vibius Passienus, the proconsul of Africa, and Fabius Pomponianus, the dux limitis Libyci let persuaded to proclaim himself emperor. Allegedly after seven days he was murdered by Galliena, a cousin of Gallienus, in Sicca in the west of what is now Tunisia , and his body was thrown to the dogs.
swell
- Historia Augusta, Thirty Tyrants 10:11; 22.12; 29 ( online, Latin and English ).
literature
- Klaus-Peter Johne : The Historia Augusta . In: Klaus-Peter Johne (Ed.): The time of the soldiers' emperors . Berlin 2008, p. 45 ff.
Web links
- Christian Körner: Short biography (English) at De Imperatoribus Romanis (with references).
Remarks
- ↑ See, inter alia, Johne, Die Historia Augusta , p. 50; Dietmar Kienast , Werner Eck , Matthäus Heil : Roman imperial table. Basic features of a Roman imperial chronology . 6th edition. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2017, p. 221.