Thirty Tyrants

For the Thirty Tyrants of Athens, in -404: to see Thirty ---- One also calls the Thirty Tyrants a series of usurpers who have or would have lived at the 3rd century of our era, at the time of Valérien, Gallien, of Claude the Gothic and Aurélien between 253 and 270.

In spite of this name which is given to them in a list drawn up by the author of the Histoire Auguste , one knows really only seventeen of them, confirmed in particular by their monetary emissions.

Several of them however seem to be invented to make good measure, to undoubtedly arrive at the number of thirty, in reference to the Thirty of the history of Athens.

The names of the Thirty historically attested Tyrants appear between below in fat. To note that the list drawn from the Histoire Auguste comprises thirty-two names, but two were women…:

1. Cyriades ( Cyriadès )

2. Postumus ( Postume )

3. Postumus Junior (Postume the Young person) ( doubtful existence )

4. Laelianus ( Lélien )

5. Victorinus - Victorinus Junior (Victorinus the Young person)

6. Marius

7. Ingenuus

8. Regilianus ( Regalianus )

9. Auréolus

10. Macrianus ( Macrien )

11. Macrianus Junior ( Macrien the Young person )

12. Quietus ( Quiétus )

13. Odenatus ( Odénat )

14. Herodes (Herodianus)

15. Maeonius

16. Ballista ( Triggerfish )

17. Valens, Valens Superior (Valens Old the) ( doubtful Existence )

18. Rammer the usurper ( doubtful Existence )

19. Aemilianus ( Émilien )

20. Saturninus

21. Tetricus Senior ( Tetricus Old the )

22. Tetricus Junior Tetricus II the young person

23. Trebellianus

24. Herennianus

25. Timolaus (Timolaüs)

26. Celsus

27. Zenobia ( Zénobie )

28. Victoria (= Victorine )

29. Titus

30. Censorinus

Sources

History Auguste

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