THE REIGN OF EMPEROR GALLIENUS: The Apogee of Roman Cavalry

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This is the only fully illustrated military life of the Emperor Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus (253-268). Considered the most blatantly military man of all of the soldier emperors of the third century. Includes 120+ color & b/w illustrations; and 35 b/w maps.

Gallienus faced more simultaneous usurpation and foreign invasions than any other emperor, but somehow he managed to survive and continue his untiring efforts to make Rome survive. Gallienus was a notorious libertarian, womanizer, and cross-dresser, but he was also a fearless warrior, duelist, and general all at the same time. This monograph explains why he was loved by the soldiers, yet so intensely hated by some officers that they killed him in a conspiracy.