Philip the Arab
c. 204 CE–c. 249 CE · Shahba
Roman emperor (244-249 CE) who presided over the games marking Rome's 1000th anniversary in 248 before falling in battle near Verona to the usurper Decius. A Christian tradition preserved by the church historian Eusebius held Philip to be the first Christian emperor, reporting that the theologian Origen wrote letters to him and his wife Otacilia Severa; modern historians treat this as unverified and at most evidence of tolerance toward Christians rather than confirmed adherence.
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Shahba
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Philip the Arab’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Philostratus the Athenian· 170 CE–245 CE
- Philostratus Sophista· 170 CE–245 CE
- Herodian· 170 CE–240 CE
- Maximinus Thrax· 173 CE–238 CE
- Aelian· 175 CE–235 CE
- Balbinus· 178 CE–238 CE
- Gordian II· 192 CE–238 CE
- Valerian· 199 CE–260 CE
- Tacitus· 200 CE–276 CE
- Decius· 201 CE–251 CE
- Plotinus· 204 CE–270 CE
- Elagabalus· 204 CE–222 CE
- Trebonianus Gallus· 206 CE–253 CE
- Aemilianus· 207 CE–253 CE
- Severus Alexander· 208 CE–235 CE
- Dexippus· 210 CE–273 CE
- Quintillus· 212 CE–270 CE
- Claudius Gothicus· 214 CE–270 CE
- Aurelian· 214 CE–275 CE
- Gallienus· 218 CE–268 CE
- Gordian III· 225 CE–244 CE
- Herennius Etruscus· 227 CE–251 CE
- Hostilian· 230 CE–251 CE
- Volusianus· 230 CE–253 CE
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