Throne of the Caesars 01 - Iron and Rust (49 page)

Alexander Severus
: Born
AD
208, Roman Emperor from
AD
222.

Ammonius
: An equestrian officer commanding a unit of Cataphracts.

Antigonus
:
Domitius Antigonus
, a Senator, governor of Moesia Inferior.

Anullinus
: An equestrian officer commanding a unit of Armenians.

Apollonius
: Of Tyana, wandering Pythagorean philosopher and performer of miracles, whose life spanned almost the whole of the first century
AD
; according to the
Historia Augusta
, the private chapels of the Emperor Alexander Severus contained statues of Abraham, Apollonius of Tyana, Jesus and Orpheus.

Arrian of Nicomedia
: Greek historian and philosopher, and Roman Consul and general,
c
.
AD
85/90–145/6.

Aspines of Gadara
: Valerius Aspines, Greek rhetorician from Syria,
c
.
AD
190-250.

Augustus
: First Emperor of Rome, 31
BC
–
AD
14; known as Octavian before he came to power.

Autronius Justus
: A Senator, governor of Pannonia Inferior.

Axius
:
Quintus Axius Aelianus
, an equestrian, Procurator of Germania Inferior, an associate of Timesitheus.

Barbia Orbiana
:
Gnaea Seia Herennia Sallustia Barbia Orbiana
, second wife of the Emperor Alexander Severus from
AD
225, divorced and banished in
AD
227.

Caracalla
:
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
, known as Caracalla, Roman Emperor
AD
198–217.

Catilius Severus
:
Lucius Catilius Severus
; member of the Senatorial inner council of sixteen advising the Emperor Alexander Severus; wears his hair long, and considered effeminate by Timesitheus.

Catius Clemens
:
Gaius Catius Clemens
, commander of Legio VIII Augusta in Germania Superior; brother of Catius Priscillianus and Catius Celer.

Catius Priscillianus
:
Sextus Catius Clementius Priscillianus
, Governor of Germania Superior; elder brother of Catius Clemens and Catius Celer.

Claudius Venacus
:
Marcus Claudius Venacus
, ex-Consul, member of the Senatorial inner council of sixteen advising the Emperor Alexander Severus.

Clodius Pompeianus
:
Ex-Quaestor
, and thus a junior Senator, descendant of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and thus a distant relative of Iunia Fadilla.

Cornelianus
:
Marcus Attius Cornelianus
, Praetorian Prefect under the Emperor Alexander Severus from
c
.
AD
230.

Decius
:
Gaius Messius Quintus Decius
, from a senatorial family owning wide estates near the Danube, an early patron of the career of Maximinus, now governor of the province of Hispania Tarraconesis.

Domitius
: An equestrian, Prefect of the Camp under the Emperor Alexander Severus; enemy of Timesitheus.

Eadwine
: Chief and warlord in the service of Isangrim, King of the Angles.

Elagabalus
: Nickname given to the notoriously perverted Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius (
AD
218-22) who served as a priest of Elagabalus, patron god of his ancestral town, Emesa in Syria.

Faltonius Nicomachus
:
Maecius Faltonius Nicomachus
, Governor of Noricum.

Felicianus
: Senior Praetorian Prefect under Alexander Severus.

Flavia Latroniana
: Daughter of the ex-Consul Flavius Iulius Latronianus.

Flavius Vopiscus
: A Roman Senator from Syracuse in Sicily; fond of literature, especially biography, and much given to superstition.

Florianus
:
Marcus Annius Florianus
, equestrian commander of an irregular unit of British infantry, half-brother of Marcus Claudius Tacitus.

Fortunata
: Slave-girl owned by Caecilia Paulina.

Froda
: A prince of the Angles, eldest son of King Isangrim.

Germanicus
: Nephew and heir of the Emperor Tiberius, won his name from his father’s campaigns in Germany; he died in suspicious circumstances in
AD
19.

Gessius Marcianus
: An equestrian from Syria, the deceased second husband of Mamaea, and father of the Emperor Alexander Severus.

Granianus
:
Iulius Granianus
, rhetorical tutor to the Emperor Alexander Severus.

Honoratus
:
Lucius Flavius Honoratus Lucilianus
, a novus homo in the Roman Senate, an ex-Praetor, Legate of the 11th legion and commander of all detachments from Moesia Inferior serving with the imperial field army; a man of ridiculous good looks, others often comment on his perfect teeth.

Iotapianus
:
M. Fulvius Rufus Iotapianus
, equestrian commander of the Cohort of Emesenes, and himself from Emesa.

Isangrim
: The King of the Angles in the far north (modern Denmark).

Javolenus
: A legionary in the 2nd Legion Parthica.

Julius Capitolinus
: An equestrian officer commanding the 2nd Legion Parthica; often found making notes he intends to turn into biographies.

Julius Licinianus
:
Quintus Julius Licinianus
, a Senator, governor of Dacia.

Licinius Valerian
: See Valerian (Africa).

Lorenius
:
Tiberius Lorenius Celsus
, governor of Raetia.

Lucius Marius Perpetuus
: Consul Ordinarius in
AD
237, son of a past governor of Moesia Superior, father of Perpetua, the friend of Iunia Fadilla.

Macedo
:
Macedo Macedonius
, equestrian commander of an auxiliary unit of Osrhoenes, friend of Timesitheus.

Mamaea
:
Julia Avita Mamaea
, mother of the Emperor Alexander Severus.

Marcus Nummius Tuscus
: An ex-Quaestor, and thus a junior Senator; the grandson of M. Nummius Umbrius Primus Senecio Albinus, Consul Ordinarius in
AD
206, the latter having been the brother of Nummius, Iunia Fadilla’s late husband.

Marius
: Roman statesman and general, 157–86
BC
; a novus homo who rose from humble origins to be Consul seven times.

Maximinus Thrax
:
Gaius Iulius Verus Maximinus
, known as Maximinus Thrax (the Thracian), equestrian officer training the new recruits with the imperial field army.

Maximus
:
Gaius Iulius Verus Maximus
, son of Maximinus and Caecilia Paulina.

Memmia Sulpicia
: Daughter of the Senator Sulpicius Macrinus, first wife of the Emperor Alexander Severus, divorced and living in banishment in Africa.

Micca
: Bodyguard of Maximinus from the days when both were young.

Mokimos
: A Centurion in the Cohort of Osrhoene archers.

Nero
: Roman Emperor
AD
54–68.

Ostorius
: Governor of Cilicia.

Paulina
:
Caecilia Paulina
, wife of the Emperor Maximinus.

Petronius Magnus
:
Gaius Petronius Magnus
, member of the Senatorial inner council of sixteen advising the Emperor Alexander Severus.

Plautianus
:
Gaius Fulvius Plautianus
, Praetorian Prefect under the Emperor Septimius Severus and accused of plotting against him by Caracalla; murdered
AD
205.

Plutarch
: A prolific Greek writer of philosophy, biography, and history,
c
.
AD
45–125.

Pomponius Julianus
: A Senator, governor of Syria Phoenice.

Pontius Proculus Pontianus
: Consul Ordinarius in
AD
238; son of Tiberius Pontius Pontianus, sometime governor of Pannonia Inferior.

Pythias
: A slave-girl owned by Caecilia Paulina.

Quintus Valerius
: Equestrian commander of the Numeri Brittonum, an irregular unit of British infantry.

Rutilus
: Distant relative of Maximinus.

Sabinus Modestus
: Cousin of Timesitheus, not judged overly intelligent by the latter.

Sanctus
:
Ab Admissionibus
(Master of Admissions) of the imperial household.

Saturninus Fidus
:
Titus Claudius Saturninus Fidus
, a Senator; friend of the Gordiani.

Septimius Severus
: Roman Emperor
AD
193–211.

Soaemis
:
Julia Soaemis (or Soaemias) Bassiana
, sister of Mamaea, mother of the Emperor Elagabalus and aunt of the Emperor Alexander Severus; murdered
AD
222 with her son.

Sulla
: Roman statesman,
c
. 138–78
BC
; resigned the Dictatorship in 81
BC
and soon after retired from public life, dying of natural causes shortly after finishing his memoirs.

Sulpicius Macrinus
: The executed father of Memmia Sulpicia, divorced first wife of the Emperor Alexander Severus.

Tacitus
:
Marcus Claudius Tacitus
, governor of Raetia; half-brother of Marcus Annius Florianus.

Taurinus
: Not Raurinus; unwillingly proclaimed Emperor by the soldiers of Syria during the reign of Alexander Severus; trying to flee from his mutinous troops, he fell in the Euphrates and drowned.

Thrasybulus
: Astrologer on friendly terms with the Emperor Alexander Severus.

Timesitheus
:
Gaius Furius Sabinius Aquila Timesitheus
, senior equestrian official in charge of imperial finances in Belgica, Germania Superior and Germania Inferior; acting governor of Germania Superior; married to Tranquillina.

Titus Quartinus
: A Senator, governor of Moesia Superior.

Tranquillina
: Wife of Timesitheus.

Tynchanius
: From the same village in Thrace as Maximinus, his personal attendant since early days.

Ulpian
:
Domitius Ulpianus
, famous jurist, made Praetorian Prefect by Alexander Severus in
AD
222 but murdered by the Praetorians in
AD
223 for curtailing their privileges.

Varus
:
Quinctilius Varus
, general who lost his life and three legions in an ambush in
Germania
(
AD
9).

Veturius
: A Rationibus (Treasurer) of Alexander Severus.

Vitalianus
:
Publius Aelius Vitalianus
, an equestrian official.

Volo
:
Marcus Aurelius Volo
, commander of the
frumentarii
(the imperial spies).

Vulcatius Terentianus
: Member of the Senatorial inner council of sixteen advising the Emperor Alexander Severus.

Xenophon
: Athenian soldier and writer,
c
. 430–
c
. 350
BC
; though famed as a historian and biographer, also wrote a treatise on hunting with dogs.

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Acilius Aviola:
Manius Acilius Aviola
, patrician Senator; his family claimed descent from Aeneas, and thus the goddess Venus, they first rose to prominence under the Emperor Augustus and an ancestor held the consulship in
AD
24; cousin of Acilius Glabrio.

Acilius Glabrio
:
Marcus Acilius Glabrio
, cousin of Acilius Aviola; a young patrician, one of the
Tresviri monetales
; his father Manius Acilius Faustinus was Consul Ordinarius in
AD
210.

Alcimus Felicianus
:
Gaius Attius Alcimus Felicianus
, an equestrian official with a long record of official posts, including administering the inheritance tax; a friend of Timesitheus.

Antheros
: An acquaintance of Fabianus.

Balbinus
:
Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus
, a patrician Senator, claims kinship with the deified Emperors Trajan and Hadrian via the great Roman clan of the Coelli; Consul Ordinarius with the Emperor Caracalla in
AD
213; among his many political friends are Acilius Aviola, Caesonius Rufinianus, and the brothers Valerius Messala and Valerius Priscillianus.

Caenis
: A prostitute living in the Subura at Rome.

Caesonius Rufinianus
:
Lucius Caesonius Lucillus Macer Rufinianus
, a patrician Senator; Suffect Consul
c
.
AD
225–30; a friend of Balbinus.

Castricius
:
Gaius Aurelius Castricius
, a young man of uncertain origins living a disreputable life in the Subura.

Catius Celer
:
Lucius Catius Celer
, A Senator, Praetor in
AD
235; younger brother of Catius Priscillianus and Catius Clemens; a friend of Timesitheus.

Cato the Censor
:
Marcus Porcius Cato
, also known as Cato the Elder (234–149
BC
), stern moralist of the Republic.