Quietus
{{Short description|Usurper of the Roman Empire (died 261)}}
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| name =Quietus
| full name =Titus Fulvius Junius Quietus
| title =Usurper of the Roman Empire
| image= Antoninianus-Quietus-RIC 0009.jpg
| caption =Quietus on a coin
celebrating Eternal Rome.The coinage of Quietus and of his brother and co-emperor Macrianus Minor celebrated the army, the confidence in victory, and the foreseen arrival of happy times. All of these themes were very important in a time of emergency, when the Roman Empire had lost its Emperor in battle against the Sassanid Empire.
| reign =260-1 (with
Macrianus Minor)
| predecessor =Gallienus
| successor =Gallienus
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| father =Macrianus Major
| mother =? (of senatorial descent)
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| death_date =261
| place of burial =
||regnal name=Imperator Caesar Titus Fulvius Junius Quietus Augustus}}
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Titus Fulvius Junius Quietus (died 261) was a Roman usurper against Roman Emperor Gallienus.
History
Quietus was the son of Fulvius MacrianusJones, pg. 757 and a noblewoman, possibly named Junia. According to Historia Augusta, he was a military tribune under Valerian,Historia Augusta, Tyranni Triginta, 12:10 but this information is challenged by historians.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}
He gained the imperial office with his brother Macrianus Minor, after the capture of Emperor Valerian in the Sassanid campaign of 260.Jones, pg. 758 With the lawful heir, Gallienus, being far away in the West, the soldiers elected the two emperors. The support of his father, controller of the imperial treasure, and the influence of Balista, Praetorian prefect of the late Emperor Valerian, proved instrumental in his promotion.Körner, www.roman-emperors.org/galusurp.htm#Note%202
Quietus and Macrianus, elected consuls,Körner, www.roman-emperors.org/galusurp.htm#Note%202 had to face the Emperor Gallienus, at the time in the West. Quietus and Balista stayed in the eastern provinces, while his brother and father marched their army to Europe to seize control of the Roman Empire. After the defeat and deaths of his brother and father in Thrace in 261, Quietus lost the control of the provinces in favour of Septimus Odaenathus of Palmyra, a loyal client king of the Romans who had helped push the Persians out of the eastern provinces and recovered Roman Mesopotamia in 260.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} Forced to flee to the city of Emesa,Jones, pg. 757 he was besieged there by Odaenathus,{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} during the course of which he was killed by its inhabitants, possibly instigated by Balista.(Zonaras xii.24)
Cultural depictions
Quietus appears in Harry Sidebottom's historical fiction novel series as one of the series' antagonists.
References
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Sources
- {{Web archive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171631/http://www.roman-emperors.org/galusurp.htm#Note%202|date=2016-03-03|title=Körner, Christian, "Usurpers in the east: The Macriani and Ballista", s.v. "Usurpers under Gallienus", De Imperatoribus Romanis}}
- Jones, A.H.M., Martindale, J.R. The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. I: AD260-395, Cambridge University Press, 1971
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{{s-ttl | title=Consul of the Roman Empire|years=261 |regent1=Macrianus Minor,
Postumus,
Gallienus,
Lucius Petronius Taurus Volusianus}}
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Nummius Faustianus }}
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Category:Thirty Tyrants (Roman)
Category:3rd-century Roman consuls
Category:Year of birth unknown