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Gordian I, the Glossary

Gordian I (Marcus Antonius Gordianus Sempronianus Romanus; 158 – April 238 AD) was Roman emperor for 22 days with his son Gordian II in 238, the Year of the Six Emperors.^[1]

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159 births
238 deaths
3rd-century Roman emperors
Antonii
Deified Roman emperors
Gordian dynasty
Suicides by hanging in Tunisia

Ab epistulis

Ab epistulis was the chancellor's office in the Roman Empire with responsibility for the emperor's correspondence.

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Aedile

Aedile (aedīlis, from aedes, "temple edifice") was an elected office of the Roman Republic.

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Africa (Roman province)

Africa was a Roman province on the northern coast of the continent of Africa.

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Anatolia

Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.

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Ankara, historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and 5.8 million in Ankara Province, making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul, but first by the urban area (4,130 km2).

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Antonia Gordiana

Antonia Gordiana (born 201) was a prominent, wealthy, and noble Roman woman who lived in the troubled and unstable 3rd century. Gordian I and Antonia Gordiana are antonii and Gordian dynasty.

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Antoninus Pius

Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius (19 September AD 86 – 7 March 161) was Roman emperor from AD 138 to 161. Gordian I and Antoninus Pius are Deified Roman emperors.

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Assassination

Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a personespecially if prominent or important.

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Aurelius Victor

Sextus Aurelius Victor (c. 320 – c. 390) was a historian and politician of the Roman Empire.

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Balbinus

Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus (died 238 AD) was Roman emperor with Pupienus for three months in 238, the Year of the Six Emperors. Gordian I and Balbinus are 238 deaths, 3rd-century Roman emperors and Crisis of the Third Century.

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Battle of Carthage (238)

The Battle of Carthage was fought in 238 AD between a Roman army loyal to Emperor Maximinus Thrax and the forces of Emperors Gordian I and Gordian II.

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Capelianus

Capelianus was a Roman governor of the province of Numidia in the 3rd century, and commander of the army that defeated and killed Gordian II in 238, the Year of the Six Emperors. Gordian I and Capelianus are Crisis of the Third Century.

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Cappadocia

Cappadocia (Kapadokya, Greek: Καππαδοκία) is a historical region in Central Anatolia, Turkey.

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Caracalla

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (born Lucius Septimius Bassianus, 4 April 188 – 8 April 217), better known by his nickname Caracalla, was Roman emperor from 198 to 217 AD. Gordian I and Caracalla are 3rd-century Roman emperors and Deified Roman emperors.

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Carthage

Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia.

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Christian Settipani

Christian Settipani (born 31 January 1961) is a French genealogist, historian and IT professional, currently working as the Technical Director of a company in Paris.

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Chronograph of 354

The Chronograph, Chronography, or Calendar of 354 is a compilation of chronological and calendrical texts produced in 354 AD for a wealthy Roman Christian named Valentinus by the calligrapher and illustrator Furius Dionysius Filocalus.

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Classical Association

The Classical Association (CA) is an educational organisation which aims to promote and widen access to the study of classical subjects in the United Kingdom.

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Claudia Tisamenis

Claudia Tisamenis (Greek: Κλαυδία) was a Greek aristocratic woman that lived in the 2nd century in the Roman Empire.

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Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae

The (CSHB; italic), also referred to as the Bonn Corpus, is a monumental fifty-volume series of primary sources for the study of Byzantine history (–1453), published in the German city of Bonn between 1828 and 1897.

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De Imperatoribus Romanis

De Imperatoribus Romanis (DIR) is an online peer-reviewed encyclopedia about the emperors of the Roman Empire, including the Byzantine Empire.

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Denarius

The denarius (dēnāriī) was the standard Roman silver coin from its introduction in the Second Punic War to the reign of Gordian III (AD 238–244), when it was gradually replaced by the antoninianus.

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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon (8 May 173716 January 1794) was an English essayist, historian, and politician.

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Elagabalus

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (born Sextus Varius Avitus Bassianus, 204 – 13 March 222), better known by his posthumous nicknames Elagabalus and Heliogabalus, was Roman emperor from 218 to 222, while he was still a teenager. Gordian I and Elagabalus are 3rd-century Roman emperors.

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Epitome

An epitome (ἐπιτομή, from ἐπιτέμνειν epitemnein meaning "to cut short") is a summary or miniature form, or an instance that represents a larger reality, also used as a synonym for embodiment.

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Faustina the Elder

Annia Galeria Faustina the Elder, sometimes referred to as Faustina I or Faustina Major (100 – late October 140), was a Roman empress and wife of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius.

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Gaius Furius Sabinius Aquila Timesitheus

Gaius Furius Sabinius Aquila Timesitheus (Greek: Τιμησίθεος) (AD 190-243) was an officer of the Roman Imperial government in the first half of the 3rd century. Most likely of Oriental-Greek origins, he was a Roman citizen, probably of equestrian rank. Gordian I and Gaius Furius Sabinius Aquila Timesitheus are Crisis of the Third Century.

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Galatia

Galatia (Γαλατία, Galatía, "Gaul") was an ancient area in the highlands of central Anatolia, roughly corresponding to the provinces of Ankara and Eskişehir, in modern Turkey.

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Germania Inferior

Germania Inferior ("Lower Germania") was a Roman province from AD 85 until the province was renamed Germania Secunda in the 4th century AD, on the west bank of the Rhine bordering the North Sea.

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Gordian dynasty

The Gordian dynasty, sometimes known as the Gordianic dynasty, was short-lived, ruling the Roman Empire from 238 to 244AD. Gordian I and Gordian dynasty are Crisis of the Third Century.

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Gordian I

Gordian I (Marcus Antonius Gordianus Sempronianus Romanus; 158 – April 238 AD) was Roman emperor for 22 days with his son Gordian II in 238, the Year of the Six Emperors. Gordian I and Gordian I are 159 births, 238 deaths, 3rd-century Roman emperors, antonii, Crisis of the Third Century, Deified Roman emperors, Gordian dynasty, heads of state who died by suicide, Roman governors of Britain, Suffect consuls of Imperial Rome and Suicides by hanging in Tunisia.

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Gordian II

Gordian II (Marcus Antonius Gordianus Sempronianus Romanus; 192 – April 238) was Roman emperor with his father Gordian I in 238 AD, the Year of the Six Emperors. Gordian I and Gordian II are 238 deaths, 3rd-century Roman emperors, antonii, Crisis of the Third Century, Deified Roman emperors and Gordian dynasty.

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Gordian III

Gordian III (Marcus Antonius Gordianus; 20 January 225 – February 244) was Roman emperor from 238 to 244. Gordian I and Gordian III are 3rd-century Roman emperors, antonii, Crisis of the Third Century, Deified Roman emperors and Gordian dynasty.

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Herodes Atticus

Herodes Atticus (Ἡρώδης; AD 101–177) was an Athenian rhetorician, as well as a Roman senator.

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Herodian

Herodian or Herodianus (Ἡρωδιανός) of Syria, sometimes referred to as "Herodian of Antioch" (c. 170 – c. 240), was a minor Roman civil servant who wrote a colourful history in Greek titled History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus (τῆς μετὰ Μάρκον βασιλείας ἱστορία) in eight books covering the years 180 to 238.

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Historia Augusta

The Historia Augusta (English: Augustan History) is a late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman emperors, their junior colleagues, designated heirs and usurpers from 117 to 284. Gordian I and Historia Augusta are Crisis of the Third Century.

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Joannes Zonaras

Joannes or John Zonaras (Ἰωάννης Ζωναρᾶς; 1070 – 1140) was a Byzantine Greek historian, chronicler and theologian who lived in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey).

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Laterculus

A laterculus was, in late antiquity or the early medieval period, an inscribed tile, stone or terracotta tablet used for publishing certain kinds of information in list or calendar form.

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Legio III Augusta

Legio III Augusta ("Third Augustan Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army.

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Legio IV Scythica

Legio IV Scythica ("Scythian Fourth Legion"), also written as Legio IIII Scythica, was a legion of the Imperial Roman army founded in by the Roman general Mark Antony, for his campaign against the Parthian Empire, hence its other cognomen, Parthica.

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List of Roman emperors

The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward.

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List of shortest-reigning monarchs

A monarch is the leader of a monarchy, a position usually intended to last for life or until abdication or deposition.

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Lucius Plautius Lamia Silvanus

Lucius Plautius Lamia Silvanus (c. 110 – aft. 145) was a Roman senator. Gordian I and Lucius Plautius Lamia Silvanus are Suffect consuls of Imperial Rome.

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Mainz

Mainz (see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 35th-largest city.

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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (English:; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. Gordian I and Marcus Aurelius are Deified Roman emperors.

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Mark Antony

Marcus Antonius (14 January 1 August 30 BC), commonly known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic from a constitutional republic into the autocratic Roman Empire. Gordian I and Mark Antony are antonii.

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Maximinus Thrax

Maximinus Thrax was a Roman emperor from 235 to 238. Gordian I and Maximinus Thrax are 238 deaths, 3rd-century Roman emperors and Crisis of the Third Century.

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Numidia

Numidia was the ancient kingdom of the Numidians in northwest Africa, initially comprising the territory that now makes up Algeria, but later expanding across what is today known as Tunisia and Libya.

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Otho

Otho (born Marcus Salvius Otho; 28 April 32 – 16 April 69) was Roman emperor, ruling for three months from 15 January to 16 April 69. Gordian I and Otho are heads of state who died by suicide and Suffect consuls of Imperial Rome.

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Philip II (Roman emperor)

Philip II (Marcus Julius Severus Philippus; 237 – 249), also known as Philip the Younger, was the son and heir of the Roman emperor Philip the Arab by his wife Marcia Otacilia Severa. Gordian I and Philip II (Roman emperor) are 3rd-century Roman emperors.

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Philip the Arab

Philip the Arab (Marcus Julius Philippus "Arabs"; 204 – September 249) was Roman emperor from 244 to 249. Gordian I and Philip the Arab are 3rd-century Roman emperors, Crisis of the Third Century and Deified Roman emperors.

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Philostratus

Philostratus or Lucius Flavius Philostratus (Φιλόστρατος; 170s – 240s AD), called "the Athenian", was a Greek sophist of the Roman imperial period.

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Phrygia

In classical antiquity, Phrygia (Φρυγία, Phrygía) was a kingdom in the west-central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River.

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Praetor

Praetor, also pretor, was the title granted by the government of ancient Rome to a man acting in one of two official capacities: (i) the commander of an army, and (ii) as an elected magistratus (magistrate), assigned to discharge various duties.

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Praetorian Guard

The Praetorian Guard (Latin: cohortes praetoriae) was an elite unit of the Imperial Roman army that served as personal bodyguards and intelligence agents for the Roman emperors.

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Proconsul

A proconsul was an official of ancient Rome who acted on behalf of a consul.

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Promagistrate

In ancient Rome, a promagistrate (pro magistratu) was a person who was granted the power via prorogation to act in place of an ordinary magistrate in the field.

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Pupienus

Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus (164238) was Roman emperor with Balbinus for 99 days in 238, during the Year of the Six Emperors. Gordian I and Pupienus are 238 deaths, 3rd-century Roman emperors and Crisis of the Third Century.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.

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Roman consul

A consul was the highest elected public official of the Roman Republic (to 27 BC).

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Roman emperor

The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC.

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Roman naming conventions

Over the course of some fourteen centuries, the Romans and other peoples of Italy employed a system of nomenclature that differed from that used by other cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, consisting of a combination of personal and family names.

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Roman Republic

The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium.

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Roman Senate

The Roman Senate (Senātus Rōmānus) was the highest and constituting assembly of ancient Rome and its aristocracy.

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Severus Alexander

Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander (1 October 208 – March 235), also known as Alexander Severus, was Roman emperor from 222 until 235. Gordian I and Severus Alexander are 3rd-century Roman emperors, Crisis of the Third Century and Deified Roman emperors.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_I

Also known as Fabia Orestilla, Gordian Revolt, Gordianus I, Marcus Antonius Gordianus.

, Philip the Arab, Philostratus, Phrygia, Praetor, Praetorian Guard, Proconsul, Promagistrate, Pupienus, Roman Britain, Roman consul, Roman emperor, Roman naming conventions, Roman Republic, Roman Senate, Severus Alexander, Symeon Logothete, Syria, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Thysdrus, Tranquillina, Triumvirate (ancient Rome), Valerian (emperor), Year of the Four Emperors, Year of the Six Emperors, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Zosimus (historian).

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159 births

238 deaths

3rd-century Roman emperors

Antonii

Deified Roman emperors

Gordian dynasty

Suicides by hanging in Tunisia

References