DIDIUS JULIANUS

(Marcus Didius Salvius Julianus)dĭˈdēəs joolēāˈnəs, d. 193, Roman emperor (193). He was consul under Pertinax, on whose death the Praetorian Guard received bids for the position of emperor. Didius bid highest and became emperor. Two months later he was murdered when Septimius Severus, who would not recognize him, bought the support of the Praetorian Guard. Severus succeeded him.

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Septimius Severus: The African Emperor
Book by Anthony R. Birley; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Emperors--Rome--Biography, Rome--History--Lucius Septimius Severus, 193-211, Severus, Lucius Septimius--Emperor Of Rome--146-211
...5-8 Coins of Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Niger and Albinus...connections at the palace was Didius Julianus, a man of Milanese family, whose...Salvius Julianus, or his legate, Didius Julianus. The HA misled by Aurelius...
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Who's Who in the Roman World
Book by John Hazel; Routledge, 2001
Subjects: Rome--Biography, Rome--History
...more names. An extra name was also added to show adoption, derived from the adoptees original nomen, such as Aemilianus, Julianus, Octavianus. Freed slaves or foreigners took the first two names of the man who freed or emancipated them and added their original...
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Empire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World
Book by J. E. Lendon; Clarendon Press, 1997
Subjects: Rome--Politics And Government--30 B.C.-476 A.D
...1 Nero, Suet. Nero 47 . 3; Dio 63. 27. 3. Vitellius, Tac. Hist. 3 . 84; Suet. Vit. 16. Cf. Didius Julianus , Herod. 2 . 12. 7; HA Did. Jul. 8. 6; and this vision of the abandoned emperor was resonant, Orig. Cels. 8...
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Emperors Don't Die in Bed
Book by Fik Meijer; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Emperors--Rome--Biography, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
...Commodus: 180-192 63 5 The African and Syrian emperors 66 Pertinax: 192-193 66 Didius Julianus: 193 68 Septimius Severus: 193-211 70 Geta: 211 73 Caracalla: 211-217 74...
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The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine
Book by Pat Southern; Routledge, 2001
Subjects: Rome--History--Constantine I, The Great, 306-337, Rome--History--Diocletian, 284-305, Rome--History--Period Of Military Anarchy, 235-284, Rome--History--Severans, 193-235
...prefect of the city, tried to outbid Didius Julianus; but he was unsuccessful. Finally...form of the legitimate Emperor Didius Julianus, the Praetorians, and the Senate...to set one against the other. Julianus took hasty steps to defend himself...
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newspaper articles on: Didius Julianus  - 2 results

 
 
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Denting a Few Egos in the U.S. Senate
Newspaper article by Wesley Pruden; The Washington Times, June 30, 2000
Subjects: Reno, Janet, Specter, Arlen
...bit ironic that it recalled to my memory something which really has no bearing here. That on March 28 in 193 A.D., Didius Julianus purchased the throne of the Roman Empire at an auction. As I recall, he paid 62 hundred and 50 whatever your coins...
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Peer Pressure
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 7, 2006
Subjects: Fraud--Political aspects
...political history, AJ Maundy Gregory. Of course, the sale of honours had been going on since 193 AD, when Marcus Didius Julianus bought the title of Roman Emperor, and it was the British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger who laid down the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Didius Julianus  - 4 results

 
 
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Didius Julianus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
DIDIUS JULIANUS (Marcus Didius Salvius Julianus)di de s joolea n s, d. 193, Roman emperor (193). He was consul...Praetorian Guard received bids for the position of emperor. Didius bid highest and became emperor. Two months later he was murdered...
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Pertinax
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...to curb license in the Praetorian Guard, he was slain by a soldier, thus ending his brief reign of three months. Didius Julianus succeeded him. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University...
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Severus (Lucius Septimius Severus), Roman Emperor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...lasted three months before he too was assassinated. The Pretorian guards arranged the succession of the weak Didius Julianus . With the empire in disarray, Severus marched on Rome. Proclaimed emperor, Severus went to the East to overthrow...
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Rulers of the Roman Empire
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...161 69 Commodus, son of Marcus Aurelius, 180 92 Pertinax, proclaimed emperor by the Praetorian Guard, 193 Didius Julianus, bought office from the Praetorian Guard, 193 Severus, proclaimed emperor, 193 211 Caracalla, son of Severus...


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