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4th-century Roman consuls
- Constantine II (emperor)A young boy named Constantine arrived in the city of Arles during the year 316. He was the second son born to Emperor Constantine I and his wife Fausta.
- LiciniusValerius Licinianus Licinius emerged from a Dacian peasant family in Moesia Superior around the year 265. His early life remained obscure until he joined his…
- Constantius ChlorusFlavius Valerius Constantius entered the world on the 31st of March, though historians cannot name his birth year. His career and the age of his eldest son…
- Theodosius ITheodosius I was born in Hispania on the 11th of January, probably in the year 347, and by the time he died in Mediolanum on the 17th of January 395, he had…
- Constantine the GreatConstantine the Great was born on the 27th of February 272 in Naissus, a provincial city in what is now Serbia, to a Roman army officer and a Greek woman of…
- StilichoStilicho was the most powerful man in the Western Roman Empire, a half-Vandal general who rose from the ranks to hold an empire together with his bare hands.
- GaleriusGalerius Valerius Maximianus arrived in the world between 258 and 260 within the Danube provinces. Ancient texts place his birth either near Serdica or at a…
- DiocletianDiocletian retired from the most powerful office in the world and went home to grow cabbages. When rivals begged him to return to the throne in 308, he wrote…
- ArcadiusArcadius was born around 377 in Hispania, and by the time he was five years old, his father had named him co-ruler of the eastern Roman Empire.
- HonoriusHonorius was emperor of the Western Roman Empire for thirty years, from 393 to 423, and he presided over one of the most catastrophic stretches in Roman…
- MaxentiusMarcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius entered the world in 283 as the son of Emperor Maximian and his Syrian wife Eutropia.
- AusoniusDecimus Magnus Ausonius entered the world in Burdigala, a city now known as Bordeaux, France. His father Julius Ausonius practiced medicine and traced his…
- ValensOn the 28th of March 364, soldiers gathered before the Constantinian Walls at a place called Hebdomon to acclaim Valens as co-emperor.
- Julian (emperor)Julian, the Roman emperor who ruled from 361 to 363, is remembered by a name he did not choose: the Apostate. To the Christians who survived his reign and…