Category:Didius Julianus (subject)
Marcus Didius Salvius Julianus Severus (133 – 193 CE) reigned shortly in 193 CE.
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Overview
Didius Julianus, a Roman Senator, succeeded to Pertinax, after the late was murdered by the Praetorian Guard in 193 CE. He had to face immediately various rebellions through the Empire. Soon afterwards, in the same year, Septimius Severus deposed him and had him executed.
Early Career
Didius Julianus was born in 133 CE. His father, Quintus Petronius Didius Severus, came from an important family from Milan. His mother, Aemilia Clara, came from a family of consular rank. The young Didius Julianus did grow up in the house of Domitia Lucilla, the mother of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Didius Julianus took the Senatorial cursus honorum, and appointed in turn, quaestor, aedilis, and in 162 CE he was appointed praetor. He was then appointed legate of the Legio XXII Primigenia in Mogontiacum. There he repressed the rebellion of the Chauci. In 175 CE, he was appointed consul, together with Pertinax. His cursus honorum continued with a governorship in the provinces of Dalmatia and Germania Inferior, prefect of Italy, governor of Bythinia, and then in 190 CE, he was appointed proconsul of Africa, where he succeeded to [[Pertinax]. He was married to Manlia Scantilla and in 153 CE, he had a daughter, Didia Clara.
Imperial Succession
Didius Iulianus bought the Imperial purple in an auction hold by the Praetorian Guard, who, under the leadership of the praetorian prefect Aemilius Laetus, had murdered Pertinax in 193 CE. Didius Julianus won after he offered to the soldiers a big donative, outbidding the urban prefect Titus Flavius Sulpicianus. His accession to the throne was immediately contested by various rebellions all over the empire, Septimius Severus in Pannonia, Pescennius Niger in Syria, and Clodius Albinus in Britain. Didius Julianus asked the Senate to appoint Septimius Severus, who was marching to Rome, as a joint Emperor. Septimius Severus refused, and once he entered in Rome in the summer of 193 CE, he had Didius Julianus sentenced to death by the Senate and executed.
Didius Julianus in ancient sources
- Didius Julianus (sources) -- survey of ancient sources
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