Pertinax
c. 126 CE–c. 193 CE · Alba
Pertinax (born 126 CE at Alba Pompeia in Liguria; died 28 March 193 CE) was the son of a freedman who rose through a distinguished military and administrative career before being proclaimed emperor on 1 January 193, the first ruler of the Year of the Five Emperors. His attempts to restore military discipline and imperial finances angered the Praetorian Guard, who murdered him after a reign of roughly 87 days, after which the Guard auctioned the throne to Didius Julianus.
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Alba
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Pertinax’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Claudius Ptolemaeus· 100 CE–170 CE
- Xenophon of Ephesus· 100 CE–170 CE
- Alcinous· 100 CE–
- Adrianus of Tyre· 115 CE–193 CE
- Maximus of Tyre· 115 CE–185 CE
- Numenius of Apamea· 115 CE–185 CE
- Harpocration· 115 CE–180 CE
- Dionysius of Byzantium· 115 CE–180 CE
- Aelius Herodianus· 115 CE–180 CE
- Artemidorus· 115 CE–180 CE
- Apollonius Dyscolus· 115 CE–175 CE
- Aelius Aristides· 117 CE–181 CE
- Vettius Valens· 120 CE–175 CE
- Marcus Aurelius· 121 CE–180 CE
- Apuleius· 124 CE–170 CE
- Lucian of Samosata· 125 CE–180 CE
- Aulus Gellius· 125 CE–180 CE
- Galen· 129 CE–216 CE
- Lucius Verus· 130 CE–169 CE
- Didius Julianus· 133 CE–193 CE
- Julius Pollux· 135 CE–192 CE
- Oppian· 140 CE–190 CE
- Septimius Severus· 145 CE–211 CE
- Commodus· 161 CE–192 CE
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