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Nepotian (350 A.D.)

Michael DiMaio, Jr.

Salve Regina University

A Bust of the Emperor Nepotian (c) 1998 Princeton Economic Institute

Julius Nepotian, the son of Eutropia, the half-sister of Constantine the Great, declared himself emperor at Rome on 3 June 350. With a band of gladiators he attacked Rome but was killed by Magnentius' generals on 30 June 350, twenty-eight days after the beginning of the revolt. His head was put on a spear and carried around Rome.

Bibliography

Barnes, T.D, Athanasius and Constantius: Theology and Politics in the Constantinian Empire, Cambridge, 1993.

Jones, A.H.M. J.R. Martindale, and J. Morris. "Iul. Nepotianus 5" the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Cambridge, 1971, 1.624.

Copyright (C) 1996, Michael DiMaio, Jr. This file may be copied on the condition that the entire contents, including the header and this copyright notice, remain intact.

Comments to: Michael DiMaio, Jr.

Updated: 6 August 1996

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