Gratian
c. 359 CE–c. 383 CE · Sremska Mitrovica
Gratian (born 359 CE at Sirmium, modern Sremska Mitrovica; died 383 CE) was the elder son of Valentinian I and ruled the Western Roman Empire from 375 until his death. A promoter of Nicene Christianity, he was one of the three emperors named in the Edict of Thessalonica of 380 — issued jointly with the eastern emperor Theodosius I and his own junior colleague Valentinian II — which established Nicene Christianity as the official faith of the empire; he also declined the pagan title of pontifex maximus and removed the Altar of Victory from the Senate's Curia. After Valens fell at Adrianople in 378, Gratian elevated Theodosius to rule the East in 379. He was killed at Lugdunum (Lyon) in 383 during the revolt of the usurper Magnus Maximus.
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Graeco-Roman world
- Heliodorus of Emesa· 300 CE–375 CE
- Ausonius· 310 CE–395 CE
- Libanius· 314 CE–393 CE
- Quintus Smyrnaeus· 315 CE–375 CE
- Themistius· 317 CE–388 CE
- Constantius II· 317 CE–361 CE
- Eutropius· 320 CE–390 CE
- Valentinian I· 321 CE–375 CE
- Valens· 328 CE–378 CE
- Ammianus Marcellinus· 330 CE–400 CE
- Jovian· 331 CE–364 CE
- Emperor Julian· 331 CE–363 CE
- Theon of Alexandria· 335 CE–
- Theodosius I· 347 CE–395 CE
- Eunapius· 347 CE–414 CE
- Plutarch of Athens· 350 CE–432 CE
- Hypatia of Alexandria· 355 CE–415 CE
- Constantius III· 360 CE–421 CE
- Claudian· 370 CE–404 CE
- Valentinian II· 371 CE–392 CE
- Hephaestion of Thebes· 380 CE–
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