Restorer of the world
Subtitle: the Roman Emperor Aurelian
By: by John F. White.
Publisher: Spellmount
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Staplehurst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Aurelian, -- Emperor of Rome, -- ca. 215-275.; Emperors -- Rome -- Biography.; Rome -- History -- Aurelian, 270-275.
Genres: Biography.
Description: The ancient Sibylline Books had predicted that Rome would last one thousand years. The millennial celebrations had already been held (AD 248) and the anxious population of the empire, shaken by civil wars and battered by the Gothic incursions, fearfully awaited the worst. Then the barbarians poured across the frontiers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.