Postumus II.
Postumus II. († 269 ) was allegedly co-emperor of the Imperium Galliarum .
According to the (often unreliable) Historia Augusta , Postumus II is said to have been the son of the same name of Postumus , the first emperor of the Gallic Empire. Accordingly, the young Postumus was elevated to Caesar and later Augustus by his father . Together with his father he was killed in the rebellion of Laelianus ("Lollianus") . Postumus junior is said to have been a gifted orator, whose controversiae found their way into Quintilian's Declamationes .
Since there is a lack of unequivocal numismatic and any epigraphic evidence, the younger postumus is not considered historical.
swell
- Historia Augusta , Thirty Tyrants 4
literature
- John F. Drinkwater: The Gallic Empire. Separatism and Continuity in the North-Western Provinces of the Roman Empire AD 260-274 . Stuttgart 1987 (= Historia individual writings, 52).
- Ingemar König : The Gallic usurpers from Postumus to Tetricus . Munich 1981.