A Tourist in Rome - Pupienus
Birth: | 168 AD |
Death: | July 29 238 AD |
Emperor: | 3 months in 238 |
Pupienus was emperor with Balbinus for 3 months in 238, during the Year of the Six Emperors. The Praetorian Guard resented serving under these two Senate-appointed emperors, and they siezed both emperors, tortured them, and hacked them to death in their bath house.
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