Eugenius (Antioch)

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Eugenius († 303 or 304) was a brief Roman usurper in Syria .

The Tribune Eugenius was proclaimed emperor in Seleukia Pieria in 303 (or 304) by a cohort assigned to port work and then attacked Antioch , but fell in battle. Although the inhabitants are said to have opposed the usurper's troops, the city was punished by Diocletian by executing its curials , including a grandfather and a great-uncle of the rhetorician Libanios .

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literature

  • Stephan Elbern: Usurpations in the late Roman Empire. Habelt, Bonn 1984 (Habelt's dissertation prints, Alte Geschichte series, 18), ISBN 3-7749-2106-7 .
  • Dietmar Kienast : Roman imperial table. Basic features of a Roman imperial chronology . 2nd Edition. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 3-534-18240-5 , p. 271.
  • Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen : Felix Augustus or αὐτοκράτωρ δείλαιος: On the reception of Diocletian in the Constantinian dynasty. In: Alexander Demandt , Andreas Goltz, Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen (eds.): Diocletian and the Tetrarchy: Aspects of a turning point. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-11-018230-0 , pp 172 -192.

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