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2 days ago · His reign was eventually ended by Valentinian II, Gratian’s half-brother. Works. Ausonius wrote a very large number of short works in Latin. Many of them depict scenes of everyday life, including Totius Diei Negotium (Doings of a Whole Day), in which he describes his daily routine. He starts the day by waking up with a hangover, before ...
21 hours ago · Ambrose, on the other hand, had incurred the lasting enmity of Valentinian II's mother, the Empress Justina, in the winter of 379 by helping to appoint a Nicene bishop in Sirmium. Not long after this, Valentinian II, his mother, and the court left Sirmium; Sirmium had come under Theodosius' control, so they went to Milan which was ruled by Gratian.
3 days ago · Retired general; proclaimed eastern emperor by Gratian. Ruler of the entire empire after Valentinian II's death 11 January 346/347 – 17 January 395 (aged 48/49)
In the 4th century there are cases such as Gratian, Valentinian II, Honorius, and Arcadius who were raised from birth to rule (except maybe Valentinian II) by their fathers, but were clearly lazy shitheads who didn't accomplish anything or had popular reputations of such (One source even called Arcadius a jellyfish for being so inactive).
2 days ago · The Roman public frequently enjoined the emperor Valentinian the Great to remove Damasus from the throne of Saint Peter, calling him a murderer for having waged a "filthy war" against the Christians. In the 4th century, the Terving king Athanaric in c. 375 ordered the Gothic persecution of Christians.
5 days ago · She would have learned about her uncle Valentinian II who had been forced to flee from Milan in 387 when Maximus, a usurper, captured the city. The entire imperial family, including her mother, Galla, Valentinian's younger sister, sailed to the safety of Thessalonike.
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2 days ago · This article examines the evidence for performative prayer in early Roman catacomb painting from the perspective of an art historian. Praying (orant) figures are a dominant theme of third-century painting. Although the orant pose is generally regarded as symbolic, strong evidence connects at least one of the figures with the intercessory prayers offered by the order of widows. Following the ...
