Description 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, Gallienus is the emperor in Harry Sidebottom's best-selling Warrior of Rome novels.
Gallienus faced more simultaneous usurpations and foreign invasions than any other emperor, but somehow he managed to survive.
Ilkka Syvanne explains how this was possi.