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Garshasp
: A Sassanid warrior.

Julius Julianus
: Prefect of the First Parthian Legion.

Junius Balbus
: Governor of Syria Coele, husband of Maecia Faustina, and thus brother-in-law of Gordian the Younger.

Lucretius
:
Lucius Lucretius Annianus
, equestrian governor of Egypt.

Ma’na
: Son of Sanatruq II, prince of the Hatrene royal family; serving with the Roman army.

Manu
: Son of Abgar VIII, titular Crown Prince of Edessa, although wealthy, left without real power after Caracalla incorporated the kingdom into the Roman empire in the early third century
AD.

Otacilius Severianus
:
Marcus Otacilius Severianus
, Senator, governor of Syria Palestina; brother-in-law of Priscus and Philip.

Paris
: Mythical Trojan prince in Homer’s
Iliad
; notably unheroic.

Philip
:
Marcus Julius Philippus
, brother of Gaius Julius Priscus; born in Roman Arabia and serving as a Legate to his brother on the Parthian frontier.

Pollienus Auspex Minor
: Adoptive father of Armenius Peregrinus, patron of Timesitheus; Suffect Consul and holder of various governorships under Alexander Severus.

Porcius Aelianus
: Equestrian Prefect of the 3rd Legion Parthica.

Priscus
:
Gaius Julius Priscus
, equestrian governor of Mesopotamia, brother of Marcus Julius Philip; born in Roman Arabia.

Rutilius Crispinus
: See Crispinus.

Sabinia
:
Furia Sabinia Tranquillina
, daughter of Timesitheus and Tranquillina.

Sanatruq
: Sanatruq II, ruler of the Roman client kingdom of Hatra
c
. 200–240/1
AD.

Sasan
: Founder of the Sassanid dynasty.

Serenianus
:
Licinius Serenianus
, novus homo in Senate, governor of Cappadocia; a friend of Pupienus, and Priscus; married to Perpetua.

Severianus
: See Otacilius Severianus (East)

Sollemnius Pacatianus
:
Claudius Sollemnius Pacatianus
, governor of Arabia from
AD
223.

Sporakes
: Bodyguard of Priscus, governor of Mesopotamia.

Thersites
: Deeply unheroic Greek character in Homer’s
Iliad
.

Tiridates
: The Second, King of Armenia from
AD
217; as a member of the Arsacid dynasty overthrown by the Sassanids, lays claim to the Parthian empire.

Titus
: Roman Emperor
AD
79–81.

Valerius Apollinaris
:
Lucius Valerius Messala Apollinaris
, a Senator from one of the great patrician families, father of Valerius Messala and Valerius Priscillianus; Consul Ordinarius in
AD
214, following which he spent some years in retirement after his father was executed by the Emperor Caracalla, has since returned to politics, and he is now governor of Asia.

Wa’el
: Noble from Hatra commanding a unit of horsemen in the service of Rome.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr Harry Sidebottom teaches classical history at the University of Oxford, where he is a Fellow of St Benet’s Hall and a lecturer at Lincoln College. He has an international reputation as a scholar, having published widely on ancient warfare, classical art and the cultural history of the Roman Empire.

Iron & Rust
is the first book in a major new series, Throne of the Caesars, and follows his acclaimed and bestselling series, Warrior of Rome. He divides his time between Oxford and Newmarket in Suffolk, where he lives with his wife and two sons.

www.harrysidebottom.co.uk

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