Title: Restorer of the world
First published: 2005
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.
Subjects: Emperors, Biography, History, Rome, history, empire, 30 b.c.-476 a.d.
Places: Rome
People: Aurelian Emperor of Rome (ca. 215-275)
Time periods: Aurelian, 270-275
LC classification: DG308 .W45 2005