Pupienus
c. 164 CE–c. 238 CE · Volterra
Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus (c. 164–238 CE) was a Roman senator who, with Balbinus, was proclaimed co-emperor by the Senate in 238 CE during the turbulent Year of the Six Emperors, raised to oppose the Thracian usurper Maximinus Thrax. After a reign of roughly 99 days the two co-emperors were seized, tortured, and killed by the Praetorian Guard, who resented rule chosen by the Senate. His origins are obscure; rather than Rome, his family is generally associated with the Etruscan city of Volterra, and the Historia Augusta's claim of humble birth is generally rejected by modern scholarship.
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Volterra
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The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Pupienus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Galen· 129 CE–216 CE
- Septimius Severus· 145 CE–211 CE
- Gordian I· 159 CE–238 CE
- Sextus Empiricus· 160 CE–210 CE
- Commodus· 161 CE–192 CE
- Cassius Dio· 165 CE–235 CE
- Alexander of Aphrodisias· 165 CE–220 CE
- Macrinus· 165 CE–218 CE
- Athenaeus of Naucratis· 170 CE–230 CE
- Herodian· 170 CE–240 CE
- Philostratus the Athenian· 170 CE–245 CE
- Philostratus Sophista· 170 CE–245 CE
- Maximinus Thrax· 173 CE–238 CE
- Oppian of Apamea· 175 CE–220 CE
- Aelian· 175 CE–235 CE
- Balbinus· 178 CE–238 CE
- Caracalla· 188 CE–217 CE
- Geta· 189 CE–211 CE
- Gordian II· 192 CE–238 CE
- Valerian· 199 CE–260 CE
- Decius· 201 CE–251 CE
- Elagabalus· 204 CE–222 CE
- Philip the Arab· 204 CE–249 CE
- Severus Alexander· 208 CE–235 CE
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