Lucius Verus
c. 130 CE–c. 169 CE · Rome
Lucius Verus (born 130 CE in Rome, died 169 CE) was Roman emperor from 161 until his death, ruling jointly with his adoptive brother Marcus Aurelius in Rome's first co-emperorship. His reign was dominated by the war against Parthia (162–166 CE), which ended in Roman victory and gains in Armenia and Mesopotamia, after which he and Marcus celebrated a joint triumph in 166. He died in 169 on the return from the northern frontier, most likely of the plague that the returning eastern armies had spread through the empire (the Antonine Plague), though ancient sources also report apoplexy.
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About Rome
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.
In Rome at the same time
Appian of Alexandria, Aelius Herodianus, Aulus Gellius, Galen, Cassius Dio
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In the same place & time
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Across the traditions
In the same tradition
Appian of Alexandria, Aelius Herodianus, Aulus Gellius, Galen, Cassius Dio
The world in their lifetime
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