Lucius Verus

Reece Period attributed: Period 8

Member of the The Antonines dynasty.

Coins for this issuer were issued from 161 until 169.

Lucius Ceionius Commodus was the adoptive second son of Antoninus Pius. He was born in AD 130, and Antoninus Pius favoured Marcus Aurelius to Lucius.

Marcus Aurelius elevated his adoptive brother to co-ruler upon the death of Antoninus Pius. Verus headed the Syrian campaign in the Parthian War; he spent much time with a courtesan and left the fighting to his generals.

Verus suffered a stroke in 168, while returning from an expedition to the Danube frontier with his brother. Marcus Aurelius buried his brother alongside their adoptive father in the Mausoleum of Hadrian.

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• Nomisma: http://nomisma.org/id/lucius_verus

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Information from Wikipedia

• Preferred label: Lucius Verus
• Full names:
  • Lucius Verus
• Title: Roman consul III, Roman consul II
• Predecessor: Antoninus Pius
• Successor: Marcus Aurelius
• Definition: Lucius Aurelius Verus (15 December 130 – January/February 169) was Roman emperor from 161 until his death in 169, alongside his adoptive brother Marcus Aurelius. He was a member of the Nerva-Antonine dynasty. Verus' succession together with Marcus Aurelius marked the first time that the Roman Empire was ruled by multiple emperors, an increasingly common occurrence in the later history of the Empire. Born on 15 December 130, he was the eldest son of Lucius Aelius Caesar, first adopted son and heir to Hadrian. Raised and educated in Rome, he held several political offices prior to taking the throne. After his biological father's death in 138, he was adopted by Antoninus Pius, who was himself adopted by Hadrian. Hadrian died later that year, and Antoninus Pius succeeded to the throne. Antoninus Pius would rule the empire until 161, when he died, and was succeeded Marcus Aurelius, who later raised his adoptive brother Verus to co-emperor. As emperor, the majority of his reign was occupied by his direction of the war with Parthia which ended in Roman victory and some territorial gains. After initial involvement in the Marcomannic Wars, he fell ill and died in 169. He was deified by the Roman Senate as the Divine Verus (Divus Verus).
• Parents:
  • Father:
  • Mother: Avidia (mother of Lucius Verus)
• Birth place:
• Death place: Roman Italy, Altinum
• Spouse:
  • Lucilla
• Other title(s):
  • Roman consul III
  • List of Roman emperors
  • List of early imperial Roman consuls
  • Roman consul II
• Came After:
  • Paetus
  • Marcus Nonius Macrinus
  • Quintus Caecilius Dentilianus
  • Marcus Antonius Pallas (consul 167)
  • Marcus Annius Libo (consul 161)
  • Quintus Camurius Numisius Junior
• Came before:
  • Marcus Vibius Liberalis
  • Gaius Cattius Marcellus
  • Quintus Petiedius Gallus
  • Novius Sabinianus
  • Tiberius Oclatius Severus
  • Publius Martius Verus
• Subjects on wikipedia:
  • Aurelii Fulvi
  • Nerva–Antonine dynasty
  • Lucius Verus
  • Aelii
  • Burials at the Castel Sant'Angelo
  • Roman pharaohs
  • People of the Roman–Parthian Wars
  • Deified Roman emperors
  • Imperial Roman consuls
  • Roman quaestors
  • Ancient Roman adoptees
  • Ceionii
  • 130 births
  • 169 deaths
  • 2nd-century Roman emperors