Gordian I
c. 159 CE–c. 238 CE · Rome
Gordian I (Marcus Antonius Gordianus Sempronianus), born c. 159 CE into a wealthy Anatolian-rooted family, was an elderly senator and proconsul of Africa who in 238 CE was proclaimed emperor at Thysdrus during a tax revolt against Maximinus Thrax, ruling jointly with his son Gordian II during the Year of the Six Emperors. The regime lasted only about three weeks (traditionally 22 days): when Gordian II was killed at the Battle of Carthage by forces loyal to Maximinus, Gordian I took his own life by hanging. He had no notable documented interactions with figures of the Jewish, Christian, or Greek philosophical traditions.
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Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.
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